This week found me in northern Saskatchewan again, only this time I’m on the east side in Island Falls. We are up here to finalize the installation of our first Oil Sands Monitoring Site. Since Thursday I have been in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

The route to Island Falls is through Winnipeg, then a flight to Flin Flon, follwed by a 2.5 hour drive, the last 100 km on packed gravel. The copper smelter in Flin Flon was shut down in 2010, the mining is still going on with an ore concentrator and zinc production facility.

The road up to Island Falls.

The last of the sun for today.