Spring flowers are just around the corner 🌸🏔️ 📍 Banff, Alberta, Canada (clips taken in July) A new season is only a few weeks away 👌🏼 Springtime transforms some of my favorite places into otherworldly sights. Whether it’s wildflowers in the mountains or a tree down the street from where you live, it allows us to appreciate the new beginnings that this season brings. And look forward to warmer weather 😆 #canada #spring #banff #flowers #springtime Outdoors | Travel | Adventure | Explore | Ca

The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada now cover roughly 100 square miles (258 square kilometers). The facility has expanded as its production of oil increased since the 1990s - an average of 3.1 million barrels were extracted each day in 2018, which is four times as much as in 2005. Athabasca contains Earth’s largest known deposit of bitumen, a semi-solid form of crude oil that occurs as a mixture of sand, clay, and water. The additional energy required to mine and then remove the sand from