Well, it happened!
....since the downturn in the economy up here in oil country, that employs myself and thousands in the "oil-patch" area, we now have a real threat!
The entire region has a fire ban and the rest of our province!
As if it wasn't severe enough when the price for a barrel of oil tanked to below 45 bucks a barrel, which caused a massive layoff and including myself having to take a job with half of the pay than before, the real immediate danger is a f-kn fire that has closed the entire oil production and the Cold Lakes Air Weapons Range where a huge majority of production takes place, from access!!
Read the Financial Post to see this gy-normous fire. As of today, there has already been loss of 27000 acres of borial forests consumed and loss of baby bears, deer, Caribou, Cougar, birds of every desc. Moose and Elk and countless other species of animal and plant life destroyed! Our stupid elitest government has just announced yesterday to allocate Fire fighting equipment ie: water bombers from neighboring B.C. and asked for men and equipment to come from all over the country and Europe!
Just YESTERDAY FFS !!!! This fire has been out of control for a week!!! But now as the Financial Post is saying, "These fires pose a threat to Canadas infrastructure as far as the 10% of it's oil contributions for export from the oil produced from these affected areas! NO SHIT SHERLOCK!
So without further rant, this Government of ours doesn't give a crap about the land or it's people! and now we have the N.D.P.....what a joke!!!!!!!
Signed, moving to Australia!!
P.S. FYI....Conoco - Philips, that's right, an American Company, owns BILLIONS of dollars worth of the facilities in the areas affected! Gee, wonder if our government will ask for the volunteers from the U.S.A. to come up to fight for their investors!