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Might actually be the best thing for that place, environmentally.
 
That place is such a mess with the oil sand production. Takes like ten barrels of water and chemicals to produce one barrel of oil and because they need so much water they put these plants next to rivers, then the leftover toxic water sludge shit goes into these giant man-made ponds, which leach the toxins through the ground back into the river. People living off the land downstream getting all sorts of crazy types of cancer and shit and nobody cares as long as the money keeps flowing. They need their own Canadian version of Erin Brockovich up there.
 
It's fucked. Two days ago, 1600 structures gone and they only had 200 firefighters on the incident.

There was a major logistics/comms failure for them calling for help.
 
byke said:
That place is such a mess with the oil sand production. Takes like ten barrels of water and chemicals to produce one barrel of oil and because they need so much water they put these plants next to rivers, then the leftover toxic water sludge shit goes into these giant man-made ponds, which leach the toxins through the ground back into the river. People living off the land downstream getting all sorts of crazy types of cancer and shit and nobody cares as long as the money keeps flowing. They need their own Canadian version of Erin Brockovich up there.
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Yea, we had people that would refuse to go work there because of how nasty it was with all the trash that wound up moving there to work the patch. Never did make my way over there, I say unfortunately now because it would have been interesting to check out at least once. Didn't.bank on the whole thing burning down. Hope people are alright.
 
I'm guessing this is what hell would be like. Just another reminder mother nature is always in charge; we're just lucky to hang around

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Im impressed with the lack of driving chaos with trying to get away from that.
I've seen more mess in other places (Puerto Rico) with just trying to commute home everyday.

What a kick in the balls. Bad enough having to work and live in a place like that but to then get laid off because of dropping oil prices and now have your town burn to the ground. And no one have any sympathy because people elsewhere thinking you had it so good for so long making a fat oil worker paycheques.

If oil ever sees $80/barrel again they'll rebuild Fort Mac overnight.
 
Blankpage said:
Im impressed with the lack of driving chaos with trying to get away from that.
I've seen more mess in other places (Puerto Rico) with just trying to commute home everyday.

What a kick in the balls. Bad enough having to work and live in a place like that but to then get laid off because of dropping oil prices and now have your town burn to the ground. And no one have any sympathy because people elsewhere thinking you had it so good for so long making a fat oil worker paycheques.

If oil ever sees $80/barrel again they'll rebuild Fort Mac overnight.
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Yup, it will be back, guaranteed. It'll be ND nasty again too.
 
asdfghwy said:
I'm guessing this is what hell would be like. Just another reminder mother nature is always in charge; we're just lucky to hang around

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Imagine that same fire and heat...on a motorcycle.

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JesasaurusRex said:
Yea, we had people that would refuse to go work there because of how nasty it was with all the trash that wound up moving there to work the patch. Never did make my way over there, I say unfortunately now because it would have been interesting to check out at least once. Didn't.bank on the whole thing burning down. Hope people are alright.
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There was a period where if you could fog a mirror, you were qualified for expenses paid employment and that type of 'filtering' doesn't yield high end workers. But, the whole thing burning is crazy, can't help but think of god's smiting, because it's so...perfect. Couple things I wonder about are; can the oil insurance companies handle it, and was it arson?

Aljazeera documentary on the area:
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Sad all the way around.
 
Classic military pre-flight evacuation talk. :laughing



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