Garth Lenz

Industrial landscape: Canada's Tar Sands

  • MacKay River, Boreal Forest, and Tar Mine Northern Alberta. Canada. 2010. The Boreal Forests and wetlands that surround the Tar Sands are the most carbon rich terrestrial ecosystem on the planet, holding almost twice as much carbon per acre as tropical rainforests. Referred to by the Tar Sands industry as {quote}overburden,{quote} these forests are scraped off and the wetlands dredged, to be replaced by tar mines like this whihc produce significantly more carbon that traditional oil extraction. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Trucks the size of a house look like tiny toys as they rumble along massive roads in a section of a mine. The largest of their kind, these 400 ton capacity dump trucks are 47.5{quote} long, 32.5{quote} wide, and 25{quote} high. Within their dimensions you could build a 3000 square foot home. The scale of the Tar Sands is truly unfathomable. Alberta Energy has reported that the landscape being industrialized by rapid Tar Sands development could easily accommodate one Florida, two New Brunswicks, four Vancouvers, and four Vancouver Islands.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Dubbed by most locals as Hell’s Highway or the Highway of Death, Highway 63 leads directly to the heart of the Alberta Tar Sands and through the center of one of Syncrude’s operations. During shift changes, choked full of exhausted oil workers driving at breakneck speed to get home further south, and contending with massive transport trucks and machinery, the highway is particularly dangerous. Virtually every week, an automobile accident on the highway kills or maims another worker.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Twenty four hours a day the Tar Sands eats into the most carbon rich forest ecosystem on the planet. Storing almost twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical rainforests, the boreal forest is the planet’s greatest terrestrial carbon storehouse. To the industry, these diverse and ecologically significant forests and wetlands are referred to as overburden, the forest to be stripped and the wetlands dredged and replaced by mines and tailings ponds so vast they can be seen from outer space.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Dry Tailings #2 Northern Alberta. Canada, 2010. Shell's atmospheric fine tailings drying field demonstration project at their Muskeg River mine. This has the potential to accelerate the reclamation of tailings in the future. Companies are working to find ways to make the extraction and refining of the bitumen found in the tar sands less ecologically damaging. Advances have been made in a number of areas. Over the last ten years, industry has manged to reduce the amount of water used to produce a barrel of oil by about 20%. However, during this same time period, production doubled. While advances are being made in terms of water consumption, carbon production, and energy consumption, the increase in the rate of production is utterly dwarfing the modest gains made in these areas. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Tar Sands Upgrader in Winter Northern Alberta. Canada. 2010. The Alberta Tar Sands are Canada's single largest, and fastest growing, source of carbon. They produce about as much carbon annually as the nation of Denmark. The refining of the tar-like bitumen requires far more water and energy than the production of conventional oil and produces significantly more greenhouse gas. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Syncrude, Mildred Lake Mine. Athabasca Tar gSands, Alberta Canada. This small section of a tar mine, accentuated by the light, reminded me of a scene from the moon. The Tar Sands, with their vast lakes of steaming toxins, massive refineries and pollution, and huge areas completely deforested, produce their own weather systems. The constantly changing weather conditions, with light filtered through skies filled with chemical pollution, leads to frequently fascinating and other worldly light conditions.Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Syncrude, Mildred Lake Mine. Athabasca Tat Sands, Alberta Canada. A relatively small section of a massive mine encroaches on the Boreal Forest. With the fivefold proposed expansion of the Tar Sands, an area the size of Florida will be industrialized within as little as two decades.Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Tar Sands tailings pond abstract.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Syncrude Upgrader, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada. Highway 63, or as it is known to locals as the highway to Hell, cuts through two tailings ponds as head towards an upgrader and into the heart of the Tar Sands.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • So large are the Alberta Tar Sands tailings ponds that they can be seen from out space. A cocktail of a host of the most deadly and carcinogenic toxins, they are finding their way into the Athabasca River and the foodchain of downstream indigenous communities Like Fort Chipewyan. In Fort Chipewyan rare cancers, previously unknown in the community, are now appearing with alarming frequency. As an example, bile duct cancer, which usually appears perhaps once per 100,000 individuals, has appeared in three separate cases in just the last few years in this community of twelve hundred.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • The refining or upgrading of the tarry bitumen which lies under the the boreal forests and wetlands of Northern Alberta consumes more water and energy than conventional oil production and produces more carbon. Each barrel of oil requires 3-5 barrels of fresh water from the neighboring Athabasca River. About 90% of this is returned as toxic tailings into the vast unlined tailings ponds that dot the landscape.Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Tar Sands pit mining is done in benches or steps. These benches are each approximately 12-15 meters high. Giant shovels dig the tar sand and place it into heavy hauler trucks that range in size from 240 tons to the largest trucks, which have a 400-ton capacity.Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Tar Sands, March 2010. Syncrude frozen tailings pond and Mildred Lake Upgrader in background and dumptrucks. Athabasca Tar Sands, Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • At the edge of an 80-meter deep mine, a massive tar sands truck is dwarfed by the surrounding landscape. These 400-ton trucks are the world’s largest measuring 25 feet high, 47 ½ feet long, and 32 feet wide. The mines, machinery, and trucks of the Alberta Tar Sands were the inspiration for Avatar’s Edmonton-born art director’s vision of the mining operation on Pandora.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Suncor Upgrader in Winter Northern Alberta. Canada. 2010. The Alberta Tar Sands are Canada's single largest, and fastest growing, source of carbon. They produce about as much carbon annually as the nation of Denmark. The refining of the tar-like bitumen requires far more water and energy than the production of conventional oil and produces significantly more greenhouse gas. Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Twenty four hours a day the Tar Sands eats into the most carbon rich forest ecosystem on the planet. Storing almost twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical rainforests, the boreal forest is the planet’s greatest terrestrial carbon storehouse. To the industry, these diverse and ecologically significant forests and wetlands are referred to as overburden, the forest to be stripped and the wetlands dredged and replaced by mines and tailings ponds so vast they can be seen from outer space.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Even in the extreme cold of the winter, the toxic tailings ponds do not freeze. On one particularly cold morning, the partially frozen tailings, sand, liquid tailings and oil residue, combined to produce abstractions that reminded me of a Jackson Pollock canvas.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Reflected Sky in Tailings Pond. Northern Alberta. Canada. 2010. Disguised by the beauty of a reflection, these toxic tailings ponds are a considerable health risk. These vast toxic lakes are completely unlined and nearly a dozen of them lie on either side of the Athabasca River. Individual ponds can range in size up to 8,850 acres. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • So large are the Alberta Tar Sands tailings ponds that they can be seen from space. It has been estimated by Natural Resources Canada that the industry to date has produced enough toxic waste to fill a canal 32 feet deep by 65 feet wide from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and on to Ottawa, a distance of over 2,000 miles. In this image, the sky is reflected in the toxic and oily waste water of a tailings pond.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Tar Mine and Roads. Northern Alberta. Canada. 2010. Trucks the size of a house look like tiny toys as they rumble along massive roads 80 meters above a mine. The scale of the Tar Sands is truly unfathomable. To date, 4,500 square kilometers have been directly impacted by the mines. Alberta Energy has reported that the landscape being industrialized by rapid Tar Sands development could easily accommodate one Florida, two New Brunswicks, four Vancouvers, and four Vancouver Islands. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Trucks the size of a house look like tiny toys as they rumble along massive roads in a section of a mine. The largest of their kind, these 400 ton capacity dump trucks are 47.5{quote} long, 32.5{quote} wide, and 25{quote} high. Within their dimensions you could build a 3000 square foot home. The scale of the Tar Sands is truly unfathomable. Alberta Energy has reported that the landscape being industrialized by rapid Tar Sands development could easily accommodate one Florida, two New Brunswicks, four Vancouvers, and four Vancouver Islands.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Even in the extreme cold of the winter, the toxic tailings ponds do not freeze. On one particularly cold morning, the partially frozen tailings, sand, liquid tailings and oil residue, combined to produce abstractions that reminded me of a Jackson Pollock canvas.Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • The tailings ponds of the Alberta Tar Sands are the largest toxic impoundments in the world. Individual “ponds” can range in size up to 8850 acres. It has been estimated by Natural Resources Canada that the industry to date has produced enough toxic waste to fill a canal 32 feet deep by 65 feet wide from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and on to Ottawa. Syncrude alone, dumps 500,000 tons of toxic tailings into just one of their tailings ponds everyday.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • REFLECTED SKY IN TAILINGS POND #2. Alberta Tar Sands, Northern Alberta,| 2010. Disguised by the beauty of a reflection, these toxic tailings ponds are a considerable health risk. These vast toxic lakes are completely unlined and nineteen of them lie on either side of the Athabasca River. Individual ponds can range in size up to 8,850 acres. Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Effluent pipe and bitument swirl. Alberta Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada, 2013. A small section of a tailings pond shows the effluent pipe which flows 24 hours a day and the swirl of black bitumen residue which flows from it. So large are the Alberta Tar Sands tailings ponds that they can be seen from space. It has been estimated by Natural Resources Canada that the industry to date has produced enough toxic waste to fill a canal 32 feet deep by 65 feet wide from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and on to Ottawa, a distance of over 2,000 miles. Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Suncor Upgrader, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tar Sands, March 2010. Shell Firebag SAGD - in situ - development.Not For Sale
  • Syncrude upgrader. Alberta Tar sands.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
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  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Limited Edition Fine Art PrintsAll prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x24” edition of 25 / $100020”x30” edition of 15 / $150030”x45” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x60” / edition of 6 / $6000
  • Not For Sale
  • Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Suncor and Syncrude Upgraders, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada. The Athabasca River winds between massive mines, tailings ponds, and upgraders. The deposits of bitumen are nearest the surface in areas close to the Athabasca River. As a result, much of the most intensive and toxic development occurs on either side of the river. Toxins leach and gather in the river and are transported downstream to indigenous communites as well as into the Peace Athabasca Delta, the world's largest fresh water delta and the only one occuring at the crossroads of all four of North America's migratory flyways.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tar Sands, March 2010Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Disguised by the beauty of a reflection, these toxic tailings ponds are a considerable health risk. These vast toxic lakes are completely unlined and nearly a dozen of them lie on either side of the Athabasca River. Individual ponds can range in size up to 8,850 acres.Not For Sale
  • Suncor and Syncrude Upgraders, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tailings. Alberta Tar Sands, Oil Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Suncor Upgrader, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • The refining or upgrading of the tarry bitumen which lies under the the boreal forests and wetlands of Northern Alberta consumes more water and energy than conventional oil production and produces more carbon. Each barrel of oil requires 3-5 barrels of fresh water from the neighboring Athabasca River. About 90% of this is returned as toxic tailings into the vast unlined tailings ponds that dot the landscape.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars. 12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Disguised by the beauty of a reflection, these toxic tailings ponds are a considerable health risk. These vast toxic lakes are completely unlined and nearly a dozen of them lie on either side of the Athabasca River. Individual ponds can range in size up to 8,850 acres.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x14” $350.16”x20” $650.20”x24{quote} $1000.24”x30{quote} $1500. 30”x40{quote} $2300.
  • Suncor amd Syncrude Upgraders, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tar Sands, March 2010Not For Sale
  • Clearing of boreal forest/{quote}over burden.{quote} Alberta Tar/Oil Sands Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Syncrude Upgrader, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • At the edge of an 80-meter deep mine, a massive tar sands machine is dwarfed by the surrounding landscape. The mines, machinery, and trucks of the Alberta Tar Sands were the inspiration for Avatar’s Edmonton-born art director’s vision of the mining operation on Pandora.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • At the edge of an 80-meter deep mine, a massive tar sands machine. The mines, machinery, and trucks of the Alberta Tar Sands were the inspiration for Avatar’s Edmonton-born art director’s vision of the mining operation on Pandora.Fine Art Prints:All prices in U.S. dollars.Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.16”x20” edition of 25 / $100020”x24” edition of 15 / $150030”x40” edition of 10 / $3500 40”x50 edition of 6 / $6000
  • Syncrude Operations effluent pipe and tailings. The toxic effluent ponds of the alberta Tar Sands are so large that they can be seen from outer space. Every barrel of oil requires 3-5 barrels of fresh water to refine. This is dramatically reducing water levels in the Athabasca River and threatening the Athabasca Delta, one of the World's greatest inland deltas and critical habitat for birdlife. These oil reserves are second only to those of Saudi Arabia. Their method of extraction is among the most damaging and their refining creates more greenhouse gases than any other oil refining process.Not For Sale
  • Effluent pipe and tailings pond. Alberta Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada. A very small section of a tailings pond shows the effluent pipe which flows 24 hours a day and the ribbons of black bitumen residue which flows from it. So large are the Alberta Tar Sands tailings ponds that they can be seen from space. It has been estimated by Natural Resources Canada that the industry to date has produced enough toxic waste to fill a canal 32 feet deep by 65 feet wide from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and on to Ottawa, a distance of over 2,000 miles. Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Suncor amd Syncrude Upgraders, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tailings Ponds. These vast toxic lakes are completely unlined and nearly a dozen of them lie on either side of the Athabasca River. Individual ponds can range in size up to 8,850 acres.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Syncrude Upgrader, mines, tailings ponds, and Athabasca River. Alberta Oil/Tar Sands, Northern Alberta, Canada.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
  • Tar Sands, March 2010. Syncrude and highway 63.Fine Art Print Price ListOpen and Larger Edition Prints. These are produced to the same high standards as our limited edition prints and offer collectors a more affordable way to get to know our work.Prints are limited to an edition of 50 in each size above 20” X 24”. Prices are for prints only and do not include tax or shipping.All prices are in US dollars.12”x18” $350.16”x24” $650.20”x30” $1000.24”x36” $1500. 30”x45” $2300.40”x60” $3600
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