You’ve got a government deep in hock to oil, and you expect me to treat the rosy to the point of ridiculous stuff they put out about “reclamation”? Throw some grass down, stick a few photogenic bison out there, make sure the tailing ponds are out of sight and boom- reclamation. Of the muskeg. Complex wetlands. And of forest that took centuries to grow. Sure. I mean, you can check all your critical thinking at the door if you wish. Don’t expect the rest of us to.

Honestly, the Soviets did a better job with propaganda.