Black Diamond Group wins contract to build LNG Canada work camps Canadian oil sector may not see any benefit from Venezuela troubl… Fort McMurray, the remote Canadian town largely built by the oil-sands industry, is trying to limit the ability of those companies to fly in out-of-town workers. The town that sits in the middle of the world’s third-largest crude reserves is drafting a bylaw to limit the construction of temporary worker housing known as man camps, as it seeks to push producers to hire locally or have workers settle there. The aim is to boost population, local businesses and housing prices in a place that endured the grim double whammy in 2016 of a devastating fire and plunging oil prices. “We want more people living in this region and calling this home,” Don Scott, mayor of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which encompasses the town, said in a phone interview Tuesday. “It’s going to give a lot more people in this region a lot more opportunity.” The region’s councilors voted in favour of a motion to stop man camps within a 75-kilometer (47-mile) radius of town. Fort McMurray’s fight against man camps is just the latest headache […]
