A raging fire turns Canadian city at heart of oil boom into a ghost town

OTTAWA — They called it Fort McMoney. No place in Canada better exemplified the country’s oil boom than Fort McMurray, a once-sleepy outpost in the boreal forest of northeastern Alberta that became the epicenter of the country’s oil-sands boom. The good times seemed as if they would never end. Drivers of heavy trucks hauling the […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/05/04/a-raging-fire-turns-canadian-city-at-heart-of-oil-boom-into-a-ghost-town/