Oil - Canada - Alberta fires update

Getting an accurate picture of what is happening in the terrible Canada fires is difficult

Reuters latest update:

• Cogeneration power plants in Fort McMurray, Alberta, were operating at about 23 percent of capacity by Sunday afternoon
• up from around 18 percen tearlier in the day
• Demand for power rose in the region even as a wildfire forced oil sands producers there to shut their operations
• "I don't think it's a case of the plants that were offline coming back, but rather a rise ingeneration demand seen by those still operating,"
• "Mind you, the numbers can change by the minute, although the capacity we have now is definitely much lower than what it should be."