Alex MacLean

Portfolio: Energy + Waste

  • The American Landscape at the Tipping PointMay 5 - July 2, 2011WEBSITEImage: Concentrated Solar, Clark County, NV 2009 (091025-0502)
  • Dirt Bikers, Boulder City, NV 2009 (091025-0487)
  • Stages of Forest Clearing, Suncor Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0659)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Suncor Millenium Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0155)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Gas flares at the Suncor Oil Sands Mining Site.
  • Oil Sands, Suncor Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0076)
  • Terraces of Open Pit Tar Sands Mine, Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0252)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemont, Minnesota 2014 (140824-0103)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Snowmobile Tracks on the Clearwater River, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140407-1057)
  • Morning Fog over South Tailing Pond, Suncor Millenium Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0562)
  • Steam and Smoke Rise From Upgrading Facility at Syncrude Mildred Lake Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0525)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Surface Oil on Tailing Pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140406-0111)
  • Steaming Effluent, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0361)
  • Tar sands mines and facilities in Alberta are among the largest industrial activities on Earth. The Syncrude Mildred Lake mine, on the banks of the Athabasca River (upper left), measures more than ten miles across.
  • Overview of tailing pond at Suncor mining site
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  • Fans of Oil from Spill Pipes, Syncrude Mildred Lake, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0250)
  • Oil Swirls Among Wastewater, Suncor Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140914-0048)
  • Oil Swirls on Tailing Pond, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140914-0088)
  • Wastewater Surface Oil, Imperial Oil Kearl Mine, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140914-0298)
  • Braided Wastewater, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140914-0076)
  • Crude oils are designated {quote}sweet{quote} or {quote}sour,{quote} depending on how much of the impurity sulfur, which must be removed, they contain. Tar sands oil, a sour crude, is highly enriched in sulfur, requiring a large amount of energy to refine. At Syncrude Mildred Lake, sulfur is removed from the crude oil and stored in the massive pyramids seen here. These two plots cover together occupy more than 1.8 million square feet of land.
  • Drilling Pad in Boreal Forest, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140406-0508)
  • Criss-crossing Field Tracks, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140404-0464)
  • Forest Buffer Along River Bed, Alberta, Canada 2014(Forest surrounds a river channel leading to a tar sands upgrading facility on the horizon)
  • Pipe Storage Yard, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140410-0169)
  • Refining Landscape, Texas City, TX 2014 (140909-0673)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Refinery Report: Marathon - Galveston BayCapacity: 400,780 b/dTar Sands Usage: 1,000 barrels per dayOil Tar Sands rating: Orange
  • BP Refinery, Whiting, Illinois 2014 (140824-0103)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • 140909-0204-Port-Arthur
  • 140909-0216-Port-Arthur
  • Sabine Pass LNG Terminal
  • Oil Rig along the coast of Bayou Casotte Mississippi.
  • Shoveling piles of tar sands refining byproduct Petroleum Coke
  • Ore Runoff, Duluth, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0214)
  • Iron Ore Piles, Duluth, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0243)
  • Tailing Piles, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0455)
  • Waste Piles, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0448)
  • Tractor Grading, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0536)
  • Sorting Piles, Duluth, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0176)
  • Dumptruck Loads, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0429)
  • Dumptruck Spoil Piles, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0393)
  • Mining Roads, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0388)
  • Road Tracks, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0390)
  • Carbide Settlement Pond, Louisville, Kentucky 2016 (160911-0176)
  • Carbide Outfall at Bells Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 2016 (160911-0382)
  • Power Shovel, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0570)
  • Cofferdams, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0468)
  • Slurry Outfall, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0483)
  • Cliffside Rivulets, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0415)
  • Dynamite Holes, Mountain Iron, Minnesota 2014 (140826-0585)
  • Steel Yard, East Chicago, Illinois 2014 (140822-0214)
  • Scrap Steel, East Chicago, Illinois 2014 (140822-0307)
  • Steel Bars, East Chicago, Illinois 2014 (140822-0174)
  • Taunton, Massachusetts
  • A River of Industrial Waste Flows Into Settlement PondSavannah, GeorgiaFilm, Ref #: LS_1276_35
  • Muskeg, A Peat-Like, Moisture-Rich Soil, Must be Dewatered Before Open Pit Mining Can Begin, Alberta, Canada 2014
  • Dumping of Earth, CNRL Horizon Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada 2014 (140915-0458)Featured in the November 2014 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine
  • Topsoil over clay, Marble, North Carolina
  • 191024-0297-Staffordtown
  • Gravel sorting at the Sapphire Quarry, Sapphire, North Carolina
  • Photovoltaic Cells, Clark County, NV 2009 (091026-0577)
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  • WINDMILLS AT TEHACHAPI PASSTehachapi, California
  • 091025-0409-Kingman-North
  • 091025-0432
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