February 2012- A multiple exposure the of Suncor Oilsands facility, formerly the Great Canadian OilSands CO. Suncor was the first oil sands development and is the second largest operation after Syncrude. It employs strip mining, where the forest or “overburden” is cleared, then the earth is shovelled and processed with large amounts of water heated with natural gas to separate the oil-like bitumen from the sand.