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Canadian Wildfires Threaten Oil Sands Hub of Fort McMurray

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Residents at Canada's oil hub of Fort McMurray remain under threat from the current wildfires – potentially placing oil production under threat.

  • Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada’s oil sand hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, were ordered to evacuate with a wildfire threatening the community, authorities said Tuesday.
  • Alerts for some parts of Fort McMurray turned to critical on Tuesday: https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-emergency-alert.aspx
  • It had been hoped that rain earlier this week would suppress the fire and avoid any evacuation.
  • An evacuation of 90,000 people in Fort McMurray back in 2016 because of a wildfire shut in about a million barrels daily in oil production. Authorities claim they are much better prepared to deal with the fires now.
  • So far, oil production appears unimpacted.
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