Photographer to Travel Proposed Tar Sands Pipeline Route, Questioning Canada’s Energy Future

From:  EcoWatch 

Phil Ortiz, TckTckTck

Robert van Waarden is a Dutch-Canadian photographer whose trade has taken him far and wide to shoot for outlets such as National Geographic Traveler, Canadian Geographic and the British Council. An ambitious new project of van Waarden’s, however, will be keeping him closer to home—and close to the environmental issues that inform much of his work.

Field in Rigaud, Quebec, Canada. Photo courtesy of Robert van Waarden

Van Waarden, who is based out of Montreal, Canada, is raising funds for “Along the Pipeline,” a series of photographs documenting the route of the Energy East pipeline. If approved, the $12 billion pipeline project will pump 1.1 million barrels a day of bituminous oil from Alberta’s tar sands to St. John, New Brunswick.

TransCanada, the company behind the Energy East proposal, has already grabbed plenty of headlines for its controversial Keystone XL project, which has been called “the biggest rallying point for the environmental movement in generations.”  MORE