Highway 63 is the only road into Fort McMurray, the centre of the Canadian tar sands industry

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Highway 63 is the only road into Fort McMurray, the centre of the Canadian tar sands industry. The town has become a boom town as the destructive oil industry expands. The road is being expanded to cope with the sheer weight of large vehicles using the road.

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