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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (298720)	5/6/2016 10:56:32 PM
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Anything's possible, but the probability of actual oil sands burning is low. A large surface of bitumen must be presented to fire, and the ground temperature would have to be elevated (heated) to support continued combustion. As for facilities including storage tanks, also low. The precondition is an improbable wind event. Wind would have to concentrate burning in small areas where facilities exist. But to varying degrees, all these facilities are fire-resistant by design. They wouldn't burn as easily as houses or gas stations. Equally important, the structures have large fire breaks around them. There would be massive intervention to save any threatened facility -- because the economics of saving it are far better than the economics of rebuilding. You never know, but even if threatened I don't see oil sands -- or associated facilities -- burning. Even supposing improbable wind events they're the lifeblood of the area and extraordinary efforts would be devoted to saving them. JMO, Jim