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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (11339)	7/16/2006 10:42:17 AM
From: I_C_Deadpeople	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25575

"Is your part of Canada having a drought? Somehow I never associated heat and dryness with Canada" Yes, the prairies certainly are an it is not unusual. I am in Winnipeg and we have about half our normal rainfall this summer. Most days the past three weeks have been near or over 30 C with zero rain.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (11339)	7/16/2006 11:36:01 AM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25575

Most of the Prairies, particularly southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, is normally a desert, outside of periods of abnormally high precipitation like we've had for most of the last 70 years. Once the summer runoff stops coming from the Rockies, it's going to get very ugly on the Prairies, including for water-intensive oil sands extraction and processing. Though the main reason we've been having bad forest fires in BC the last few years is due to the enormous pine beetle infestations engendered by global warming, another reason is the increasing summer droughts thoughout much of the interior of BC. LC