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I'm pretty sure that "rubble" is a destroyed medical structure similar to the ones seen in the Halo:2 E3 gameplay trailer and also found on the Halo: 2 MP map Turf. The "tower" as you say is clearly not a part of the background as it only becomes visible when the camera pans past the rubble. When you can see the horizon including the ring-like structure there is no tower in the background, but when the camera pans out to the rubble and the ring structure is still in the background, only then does this "tower" appear so I think it is clearly not in the background. It is just a piece of the destroyed medical tent/structure.
As for the destroyed ring structure, it is plausible that is could be the Zanzibar wind turbine, and the others in the background are just additional turbines that you can't see from the Zanzibar beach. However, the wires are strange so it might be (as mentioned previously) part of the new mombasa bridge, but I think it more likely to be the Zanzibar wind turbine.
(Spoiler if you haven't read First Strike)
The Earth is most probably barren in this area due to the fact that the Covenant probably glassed only the small section of Earth directly above the artifact similar to the way Reach was glassed. Usually the Covenant glass planets starting from the poles, but at Reach they glassed only a very small portion to uncover the Forunner artifact that the spartans entered with Dr. Halsey. Could it be that Earth is in fact the "Ark" itself, or might this artifact contain another crystal. And what about that other Forunner artifact partially excavated in one of the conersations with the universe, or maybe it was the cortana letters I can't remember. I just wonder if we will learn anything else about that in Halo: 3