Oil Industry Rises To The Challenge Of Canada’s Natural Disaster.

There can be few things more frightening than running for your life in the face of nature’s fury. This month, we saw and heard that desperate race for survival in the heart of Canada’s oil sands production, as forest fires burned out of control.

Fort McMurray blossomed during the oil boom; its population more than doubled over the last 15 years as the world’s biggest energy companies invested billions of pounds to extract bitumen and heavy crude from the nearby vast reserves, spreading long and wide across the province of Alberta.

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