Canadian oil output cut as wildfire disrupts operations, forces evacuation
Reduced output from world's fourth-biggest crude producer helped lift benchmark oil prices
Calgary
A SPREADING wildfire in northern Alberta forced almost 900 more people to be evacuated overnight, adding to the 80,000 already relocated as an inferno around Fort McMurray destroyed homes and disrupted Western Canada's oil-sands operations.
Changing weather patterns prompted Alberta's provincial government Wednesday evening to evacuate two communities more than 35 kilometres south of Fort McMurray - Anzac and Gregoire Lake Estates - as well as Fort McMurray First Nation, according to a tweet by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo.
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