Well I guess it's our turn.
There's a huge, out of control forest fire burning at Ft McMurray--THE center of our Oil Sands sector. A mandatory evacuation notice has been issued for the city of Ft Mac. 88,000 people are on the road trying to escape. They only have 2 choices--1 highway going south and 1 highway going north. Both highways are at a crawl.
Quite a large part of Ft Mac has already been destroyed by the fire. As of yesterday over 1600 homes and businesses are nothing but ash.
Hundreds of people are stranded out on the roads with no gas, food, water, or shelter.
There's no relief in sight from the fire in the near future. If it continues north, the mega Oil Sands plants will ignite and then the disaster will be incalculabley huge. If the fire spreads there, it will make the oil fires in Iraq seem pretty minor. I have no idea how these fires would be contained.
Gary
There's a huge, out of control forest fire burning at Ft McMurray--THE center of our Oil Sands sector. A mandatory evacuation notice has been issued for the city of Ft Mac. 88,000 people are on the road trying to escape. They only have 2 choices--1 highway going south and 1 highway going north. Both highways are at a crawl.
Quite a large part of Ft Mac has already been destroyed by the fire. As of yesterday over 1600 homes and businesses are nothing but ash.
Hundreds of people are stranded out on the roads with no gas, food, water, or shelter.
There's no relief in sight from the fire in the near future. If it continues north, the mega Oil Sands plants will ignite and then the disaster will be incalculabley huge. If the fire spreads there, it will make the oil fires in Iraq seem pretty minor. I have no idea how these fires would be contained.
Gary
