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Originally Posted by Destroyer
It's horrible, to be sure. And yes, the cost of gas is going up rapidly, but the funny thing is that according to CNN and several other news sources, the oil producing areas are not in danger and have not been impacted. Go figure....  |
The fire has almost doubled to 2000 square km and now at the southern edge of Suncor and easy to saskatchawan. I was at Suncor for most of my time up there it is there open pit mine and Orr processing plants on the east side of the athabasca River that the fire is approaching. The main plant is on the west side they are all mostly safe due to the fact that massive tracts of land are cleared all around them to mine or have been mined.
My friend at syncrude got evacuated today after assisting shutting in operations. The plants have all either shut in completely or at extreme reduced rates a change in wind direction can make it impossible to flee at all. Most of the people the run or maintain them have been evacuated with there family's. The other issue is fuel food etc this is a remote city the fire is just to big to get much through. With no real rain in site and lots of wind the smoke is getting to thick in the southern plants to safely see and breath. 1,000,000 + barrels of oil per day not being produced.