Pursuits
Alberta Wildfire Bigger Than New York City as Evacuees Airlifted
- Production falls as much as 1 million barrels a day: RBC
- Inferno forces Alberta's biggest-ever evacuation due to fire
Fire Forces Evacuation of Canadian Oil Sands City
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The wildfires ravaging Canada’s oil hub in northern Alberta have rapidly spread to an area bigger than New York city, prompting the air lift of more than 8,000 evacuees as firefighters seek to salvage critical infrastructure.
The inferno around Fort McMurray has destroyed homes, forcing more than 80,000 people to flee, disrupted Western Canada’s oil-sands operations and may become the costliest catastrophe in the country’s history with insurance losses potentially reaching C$9.4 billion ($7.3 billion).