![From the series: Jiri Rezac: Canada’s Tar Sands II WWF UK staff member Alexandra Hartridge at the Shell Albian Sands mining operation, 2007. Shell are a 60% shareholder in the Muskeg River Mine, which has a capacity to mine bitumen sands equivalent to a production of 182,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day.](https://acurator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jiri-Rezac-Canada-Tar-Sands-aCurator-II-04.jpg)
![From the series: Jiri Rezac: Canada’s Tar Sands II WWF UK staff member Alexandra Hartridge at the Shell Albian Sands mining operation, 2007. Shell are a 60% shareholder in the Muskeg River Mine, which has a capacity to mine bitumen sands equivalent to a production of 182,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day.](https://acurator.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jiri-Rezac-Canada-Tar-Sands-aCurator-II-04.jpg)
WWF UK staff member Alexandra Hartridge at the Shell Albian Sands mining operation, 2007. Shell are a 60% shareholder in the Muskeg River Mine, which has a capacity to mine bitumen sands equivalent to a production of 182,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day.