TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Marion THIBAUT "Fort McKay: where Canada's boreal forest gave way to oil sands"
Indigenous community member and environmentalist Jean L'Hommecourt stands on a road closed due to oil sands mining activity near Fort McKay, Alberta, on September 7, 2022. - At Fort McKay near Fort McMurray in western Canada, in the heart of the country's boreal forest, the pines and the people were long ago cleared out to make way for huge open-pit mines dedicated to excavation of oil sands. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)