SLAVE LAKE, Alberta - wet weather helped crews extinguish the number of forest fires raging in Northern Alberta Friday as Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper visited the town of Slave Lake, where hundreds of housesbusinesses and public buildings is passed in flames.
A large volume of production of oil in the region remained closed because of the closure of a pipeline of large fires 56 has continued to burn in the North of the province of the Canada largest energy producing. Ten of the fires were out of control.
Who is declining more 100 fire earlier in the week. So far, 2,638 sq. km (1,019 square miles) are inflamed, an area the size of the Luxembourg.
More than 7,000 residents is remained under vacuum and some structures incubated still five days after two flames, whipped by winds, converged on the city, a centre for the oil and gas industries and forestry of Slave Lake.
After a tour of the region by military helicopter, Harper met covered ash and soot of firefighters and emergency personnel to their command of Slave Lake centre and thanked for their efforts.
"You have to look at the bright side - it is a miracle that there is no loss of life", Harper said.
In a statement, he said that the Federal Government will work closely with other levels of Government to help residents through the disaster. The amount of federal financial assistance is not yet known
The Alberta Government has promised an initial 52 million (53.6 million) to help the immediate needs of evacuees of Slave Lake and the surrounding region.
REDUCTIONS IN PRODUCTION
The petroleum industry continued to be hit as more than 150,000 barrels per day of production companies such as Cenovus Energy Inc., Exploration of West Penn and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. was unable to flow.
A large part of which was because crude plains all American Pipeline LP Rainbow line has been closed due to fire danger, and some was due to fires near drawing of oil fields.
Later Friday, the pipeline operator said that its pipeline of Rainbow counted barrels per day could be closed for another two weeks after that wild fires damaged the power lines.
"South of crude oil flows on the 24" Rainbow pipeline of Nipisi and Edmonton remain closed due to power outages related to forest fires in the region. We have been advised that it may take up to two weeks (or more) to reinstate the service in the region, "the company said in a news release.
According to the conditions, crews are should return Tuesday to a site on the northern part of the line of the Rainbow to clean up an oil spill that occurred at the end of April.
Husky Energy Inc., said Friday that the closure of the problems pipeline and power on some sites of production of Northern Alberta had cut its daily production by the equivalent of 17 000 barrels per day.
So far, production failures have had a minimal impact on Canadian crude markets, as the volume is a small fraction of the Canada 2.8 million barrels of daily production.
However, analysts have said fire will have a greater influence on the market if they prevent production much longer or if they threaten oil sands production more to the East.
($ 1 = $0.97 Canadians)
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