Major forest fire in Fort Mac

Caustic ash:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...will-leave-toxic-legacy-experts-say-1.3573932

The radioactive waste is the more interesting material in Fort McMurray. Real estate agents never mention it but Fort McMurray was used as a waste dump for one-and-a-half million cubic feet of radium-contaminated materials from the Port Radium mine on Great Bear Lake. In the 1940's radium from Port Radium was used to develop the atomic bomb. The radioactive waste ended up in Fort McMurray because the northern terminus of the railway by which the radium concentrate was sent to the United States via Ontario was in what later became the Waterways trailer park in Fort McMurray. The radium concentrate was shipped in burlap bags carried by workers with no protective equipment whatsoever. Needless to say, they did not fare well afterwards.

 

The radioactive waste is actually up in Beacon Hill. It was buried up there to keep it away from rising water from the river in Waterways. There is a clay cap on top of the waste and 45 centimeters of top soil on top of the clay cap (although people who live there seem to have inflated the 45 centimeters to 45 feet and even 45 meters).

The clay cap on the radioactive waste has to be continuously monitored to see if it leaks like the tailings ponds clay layer at Suncor. I suppose parents in Beacon Hill should also monitor their children playing near the radioactive waste to make sure they are not making atomic bombs with the atomic waste. There is nothing worse than a disgruntled child with an atomic bomb.

 

Good time to take a holiday, especially if you managed to escape town with some money, unlike a lot of people. I saw what looked like about a third of the population of Fort Mac at the Butterdome in Edmonton today, lining up for Provincial debit cards, just to get by. It's shocking to see how many people from Fort Mac were living paycheque to paycheque. Apparently there are a lot of Fort Mac people who were unable to pay their house insurance before the fire.

It would be nice if the giant, stinking rich oil companies would give some money to the people of Fort Mac after those people spent so much effort making oil company executives filthy rich all these years.

 

They did a lot to help out when people were getting evacuated... It's not there fault some of there workers stretched themselves so thin with payments out the ### IMO.

 

Sounds like my kind of holiday! Ill be shooting my guns this weekend if my quads not fixed.