Workers prepare a massive dump truck bucket used in the tar sands mines in Fort McMurray

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Workers prepare a massive dump truck bucket used in the tar sands mines in Fort McMurray, the centre of the tar sands industry. The Alberta tar sands in Canada is the world's largest industrial project and the most environmentally destructive.

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