Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control

Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by increment_i on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:24PM (#11834431)

Turning down Russia I can (sort of?) understand. The last conservative government was keen on playing hardball with the Kremlin over Arctic sovereignty - seems there's no reason to back off that stance now.

Turning down American help was strange though. I'd like an explanation for that..

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by notatoad on Friday June 03, 2016 @11:50PM (#11834825)

Not only did they turn down american help, they haven't even called on the Canadian military yet - apart from a few aerial imaging assets, they're still just on standby. It's pretty silly to call on external firefighting assets when we still haven't expended our domestic resources yet.

Apart from Fort McMurray (which is now pretty safe) it's a mostly unpopulated area, and fire is a great natural renewal process in a boreal forest. Letting it burn for a while longer and just trying to keep guiding it away from anything valuable with minimal resources is a valid strategy.

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by The_Blackthorn on Saturday June 04, 2016 @12:48PM (#11836946)

They didn't turn down American help, there's 200 US firefighters there right now.

Source - http://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=41701E7ECBE35-AD48-579...

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by Shivetya on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:46PM (#11834501)

Canada and Russia recently got into a pissing match over another Russia space craft coming down near. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-says-it-didn...

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