Eco-Alchemy in Alberta

摘要

I'd been poking around the oily lake for an hour when security arrived. A white pickup truck labeled Syncrude pulled onto the highway shoulder, near the lake's black dirt beach, and stopped. A short woman with spiky blonde hair, glasses, and an oversized security coat leaned across to the passenger window and demanded to know what I was doing.rn"What lake is this?" I called.rn"It's a tailings pond," she answered. "And you're trespassing."