The Mordor Diaries: Among the Oil Sands Tourists - The Tyee

Suncor’s Millenium Oil Sands Mine east of the Athabasca River. Photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute ALSO IN THIS SERIES: THE MORDOR DIARIES The Mordor Diaries: Rolling into Fort McMurray The Mordor Diaries: ‘Are You Going to Slam Our City?’ The Mordor Diaries: Among the Oil Sands Tourists I’d never imagined that Alberta’s oil sands could be a tourist attraction. But here I am, a 20-minute drive north of Fort McMurray, filing out of a chartered bus behind 20 or so vacationers. We’re parked beside a gray complex at the edge of Suncor’s Millennium Mine. From an airplane you’d see desolate black…