Muck and brass

摘要

Smokestacks dot the horizon; a whiff of oil hangs in the air; gargantuan vehicles clog the highway. There is a din of heavy machinery, punctuated by blasts from cannons scaring birds away from toxic lakes. But golf courses and suburban housing make the place liveable, and some locals have grown attached to Alberta's tar sands and Fort McMurray, the town at the centre of them. "I'd like my son and grandson to work here," says a worker at one of Shell's mines.