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Canadian oil sands camps evacuated as wildfire shifts north

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 17, 2016 | 7:55 am Energy Canada Europe 

About 4,000 people who work at Canada’s oil sands industry have been evacuated as a resurgent wildfire moving north of Fort McMurray is threatening several operations in the area, the heart of the country’s crude sector. The massive wildfire, which destroyed...

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