Fire threat eases near Canada's oil sands hub, but a long, hot summer looms Burned trees from the 2016 wildfire stand sentinel over a neighbourhood in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.

FORT MCMURRAY WILDFIRE UPDATE Since January 1, 2024 there have been 27 wildfires in the Fort McMurray Forest Area, burning a total of approximately 26,643 hectares (ha). There is currently one ...

Fort McMurray has a population of about 68,000, and a wildfire there in 2016 destroyed 2,400 homes and forced more than 80,000 people to flee.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- At least two neighborhoods in this oil-sands city were scenes of devastation, with incinerated homes leveled to the ground from a wildfire Fort McMurray's fire chief ...

“The idea for Tar Sands Songbook was born in 2015 when Fort McMurray rose to international infamy as the source of ‘dirty oil’ to be carried through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline ...

Fort McMurray actually, if you recall, was on fire in 2016, and it’s been through a lot. But at that time I worked there, we weren’t yet reckoning with everything that we were doing.

“The idea for Tar Sands Songbook was born in 2015 when Fort McMurray rose to international infamy as the source of ‘dirty oil' to be carried through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline,” says ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta — Residents who were ordered out of Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, due to a nearby wildfire are clear to return home, authorities said Saturday.

This 1,600-mile oil pipeline, called Keystone XL, would transport 900,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day from Canada to the Gulf Coast, impacting natural resources, indigenous nations, and ...