Post by
slingshot14 on May 13, 2024 2:24pm
fires in Alberta
Didnt quite catch it but something a bout fires around Athabaska on Bnn about an hour or so ago
Comment by
uwebb429 on May 13, 2024 3:26pm
The current fire near Fort McMurray isn’t near any major oil-sands mines, but is in the vicinity of Athabasca Oil Corp.’s Hangingstone well site. The company didn’t immediately respond to questions on the status of the facility. https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wildfire-threat-to-canada-s-oil-sands-eases-as-rains-approach-1.2072300
Comment by
uwebb429 on May 13, 2024 3:31pm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/athabasca-oil-fire-1.3569303
Comment by
CocoBongo8 on May 13, 2024 3:48pm
Some smoke today (Monday), except for CBC who will report that smoke and extremely hott temperatures of +30C all May-June-July. Meanwhile Apple News idicates light rain for Friday, with temperatures between 15-20C. You be the judge. DYDD
Comment by
filefish on May 13, 2024 4:56pm
Per Perplexity AI: The current Alberta wildfire is just five kilometers away from the Athabasca Oil Hangingstone plant. Due to the fire's proximity and elevated safety risk, Athabasca Oil has evacuated all non-essential personnel and is in the process of shutting down the well sites and the central facility1.
Comment by
BLACKJACK86 on May 13, 2024 5:34pm
it would be nice to have an update from the company as to the plant safety, what's been done to secure the equipment. They had to deal with fire in the past, what's been learned from that? did they proceed to cut trees to prevent the fire to get too close to the site? No news is bad news , especially when you see the share price dropping on an up day on oil.
Comment by
woodsmen on May 13, 2024 9:18pm
You might want to do a little more research...... as everything you posted above did in fact happen but it was 8 yeaers ago , and to be exact it happened on May 5th 2016. So unless you can prove otherwise this is simply not current or accurate.
Comment by
filefish on May 13, 2024 10:09pm
Whoops, my apologies. Got to fact check AI also. Hopefully history does not repeat.
Comment by
woodsmen on May 13, 2024 9:37pm
You do realize this is from May 5th 2016 ?
Comment by
CocoBongo8 on May 14, 2024 8:06am
Tuesday: The weather network dot ca shows a high of 15C, low of 5C, with a chance of a shower. Apple phone shows: a high of 21C, low of 8C, tomorrow has a high of 15C with 40% chance of shower. CBC ought to clear thier cache and update their weather app. GLTA