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Wildfires in oilsands prompt evacuation orders as region braces for smoke-filled summer<\/a><\/h3>\n

More than 65 per cent of Canada abnormally parched or in drought at the end of March<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An out-of-control wildfire, dubbed Wildfire MWF012, is seen burning west of Saprae Creek on April 21, 2024.\u00a0<\/span>PHOTO BY ALBERTA WILDFIRE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Wildfires erupted<\/a>\u00a0across Canada\u2019s main oil producing province of Alberta and an evacuation order was issued as the region braces for a repeat of last year\u2019s unprecedented season.<\/p>\n

Members of the Indigenous first nation community of Cold Lake Number 149, northeast of Edmonton on the Saskatchewan border, were told to evacuate, according to a notice issued at 4:49 p.m. local time. Other regions west of the Cold Lake blaze were put on standby, with three wildfires in the province listed as out of control as of late Monday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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More than 65 per cent of Canada was abnormally parched or in drought at the end of March, leading the nation to brace for another smoke-filled summer. Unusually hot, dry weather contributed to the\u00a0country\u2019s worst-ever wildfire season\u00a0<\/a>last year, darkening skies over New York and other U.S. cities and prompting Alberta oil and gas drillers to shut as much as 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day of production.<\/p>\n

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An evacuation alert for residents of Saprae Creek, about 25 kilometres southeast of the oilsands capital of Fort McMurray, was cancelled. Massive forest fires\u00a0burned down swathes of Fort McMurray<\/a>\u00a0eight years ago, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate and temporarily shutting more than one million barrels a day of oil production.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Wildfires in oilsands prompt evacuation orders as region braces for smoke-filled summer More than 65 per cent of Canada abnormally parched or in drought at the end of March An out-of-control wildfire, dubbed Wildfire MWF012, is seen burning west of Saprae Creek on April 21, 2024.\u00a0PHOTO BY ALBERTA WILDFIRE Wildfires erupted\u00a0across Canada\u2019s main oil producing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1082,5752,103,3366,7879,3540,32416,4849],"class_list":["post-67576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-bloomberg-news","tag-canada","tag-evacuation","tag-financial-post","tag-oilsands","tag-robert-tuttle","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67577,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67576\/revisions\/67577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}