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A heavy hauler truck drives through the Albian Sands Energy Inc. Muskeg River mine in this aerial photograph taken above the Athabasca oil sands near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. While the upfront spending on a mine tends to be costlier than developing more common oil-sands wells, their decades-long lifespans can make them lucrative in the future for companies willing to wait. , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Canada’s main oil-producing region in northeastern Alberta faces an increased risk of wildfires as temperatures rise over the weekend, provincial officials said. Wildfires this year have largely spared the oil sands in northeastern Alberta, but have hammered the western and northwestern parts of the province, forcing the evacuation of as many as 30,000 people and curtailing natural gas output. That pattern is threatening to shift this weekend as temperatures rise and conditions dry out across northern Alberta, Christie Tucker, wildfire information officer, said at a press conference Thursday. “The northeast has been relatively less affected than other parts of the province so far,” she said. “But that could certainly change because they will be seeing similar conditions to other parts in the north of the province.” This year’s wildfires […]
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