An aerial photograph of a red river, a rainbow-colored sea, a scar produced by the industry

American photographer and conservation activistJ Henry FairSaid, "The siteIndustrial ScarsIn the aerial photographs, scars scored on the earth by the industry are recorded and released. Some photographs are like fantasy pictures due to fantastic color, but all are actually taken.

A beautiful rainbow color belt. It occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010Oil spill accidentOil that flowed out.


Oil is sticking here and making shapes like islands.


Flying over the ocean with a clear belt of silverCoarse Pelican.


A state of natural gas mining that is taking place in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. In the upper right is the church.



A mountain that is being cut down by coal mining. It is just blowing off the topsoil with ammonium nitrate, but it seems that the stone that flew in this bombing collided and four people died annually. The right side of the photo is still clean, but because it is just the border with private property.


In this photograph, the flow of coal mining, which the mountain where the forest remains (upper left) is scraped away by the coal extraction (central), the black coal formations appear (central lower right) .


In miningBucket Wheel ExcavatorUsing a gigantic vehicle like that, dig up the soil at a time and coal is sent to the blast furnace. On the other hand, substances that are not useful are turned sideways.


Topsoil that draws a mysterious pattern.


Various chemical treatments are carried out on the coal taken before use. This is to make a dam to cut off valleysslurryI am saving up. It is the surface of the water that looks like a fractal figure.


When a 500 MW class thermal power plant with coal as fuel is activated, 125 thousand ton ash will be emitted per year. Now it is stipulated to collect ash from the chimney, but once it was released it was causing smog. Ash is very light, spreading around here and creating such a sight.


lignitePond of effluent near the coal mine.


The power plant generates about 130 million tons of water containing harmful substances such as arsenic, mercury, cadmium, selenium, lead. Of these, 40% are reused as material for seat lock (building material) and concrete, but the rest are thrown away.



Such aerial photographs are taken near the power station in Candice, South Carolina. It seems to be the art that hangs red paint in water, but the reality scene.


Germany,LausitzIs famous for brown coal and there is a thermal power plant using its brown coal, but the waste liquid will have a big impact on the environment.



From the word "fertilizer", an idyllic image appears to be causing cows to eat grass at a strong sunny ranch, but in reality it is produced using Florida phosphate ore, etc., There is a reality that it creates a wasteland and throws away everything in the sea at the end of the production process.


Fertilizer production waste like a dragon.


Unnecessary heavy metals that can be produced during fertilizer production enter the top 10% of industrial pollution causes in the United States.


It is hard to understand what you photographed, but it seems to have been digging back and forth for phosphate mining which is a raw material of chemical fertilizer. In the mining, a large amount of radioactive and acidic waste is generated, and treatment with a large amount of sulfuric acid is carried out in order to produce toxic fluorine gas to all animals.


Waste liquid after treatment is also radioactive and acidic. This mixes with groundwater ... ....


Waste storage location along the Mississippi River. A large amount of highly radioactive and strongly acidic waste treated with apatite with apatite is also placed here.


A bulldozer carrying raw materials at a fertilizer factory. That rut becomes a clean line.


There is a "pig factory" in North Carolina. Pigs' huts are equipped with pipes that allow unwanted substances to flow into barren lands that have been converted to barren fields, as well as feces and urine, as well as fetuses bred by pigs. By the way, female pigs are given drugs and hormones, and their feces seems to be pink.


These manure and urine eutrophize the wetland and promote excessive growth of algae. As a result, all the oxygen in the water is deprived, and all organisms other than algae suffocate. This picture looks like a plant growing plants, but in reality it is a swamp where algae almost covered the surface of the water.