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One coal terminal that handles 48 million tonnes a year.

 

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Even rail trucks full of coal look beautiful in a J Henry Fair photo

Environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair took this mesmerising photograph of the Lambert's Point coal terminal in Virginia from a plane, to reveal its inner workings

30 August 2023

By Gege Li

J Henry Fair/Southwings

STRETCHING out across an otherwise unassuming corner of Norfolk, Virginia, is the Lambert’s Point coal terminal. It is the largest and fastest-loading facility in the northern hemisphere for handling and transporting this fossil fuel, the combustion of which is a key industrial contributor to climate change.

This stunning shot, titled Cause and Effect and capturing the dramatic scope of the yard’s operations, was taken by photographer and environmental activist J Henry Fair from a plane circling the facility, to “look over the fence” and see what is hidden from view, he says.

Lambert’s Point handles a staggering 48 million tonnes of coal a year. It can offload the contents of 1200 rail cars of the stuff per day onto ships bound for the Atlantic. At its maximum, it can hold 6200 of these trucks, a mere handful of which can be glimpsed here, uniformly snaking along the tracks in a mesmerising display of our influence on, and destruction of, the world.

“When I saw this terminal, I knew it would make a great picture,” says Fair. “By making beautiful images of horrible things, I hope to create a dissonance in viewers that will prompt them to consider the impacts of what is shown in the pictures, and question the assumptions that make those things possible.”

A selection of Fair’s shots depicting human interventions in nature and the environment, including this one, can be seen at his ongoing exhibition, Industrial Landscapes, at the ARTCO Gallery in Aachen, Germany, until 10 September.

Photographer J Henry Fair 

[ProDave]

I used to work not far from Didcot next to the railway, and the coal waggons were a regular sight.

[Big Jimbo]

Fantastic picture. Stunning.

[FuerteStu]

This fossil fuel industry will be looked back upon as the tobacco industry is now. 

 

Bribing leaders, false science, price fixing.. 

 

Except it won't be a few hundred million getting cancer, it will be the entire planet  ruined.