Cameco is suspending uranium shipments from its northern mines because of raging wildfires.
"So we're not moving product right now, not while there's a fire situation," Cameco CEO Tim Gitzel said in an interview on Saskatoon Morning.
Stockpiling uranium is just one of the things the company is dealing with these days.
"We're not moving product right now, not while there's a fire situation.- Tim Gitzel, Cameco CEO
It's trying to keep track of its 1,500 employees, many whose families are getting evacuated to points south. It's lending out equipment such as generators and bulldozers to surrounding communities.
And, in one instance, it turned a mine site into an evacuation centre.
People leaving Pinehouse couldn't head south because the highway closed. So, they drove north to the Key Lake.
"We housed them at the mine site in camps, we looked after them. We're happy to do that, help where we can," he said.
Gitzel said that tracking employees is a daily challenge. It's had to change its pick-up points for fly in workers because airports are closed at La Ronge and Beauval.