Dangerous fires in Western Canada!

Hello gentle people: Remember global warming? It is still with us and getting worse and until we remove the industrial domination from within our governments and place nature above corporate greed, our children and grand children will face more than a  few unnatural life devastating scenarios!

 Remember that song: 'Don't let the smoke get in your eyes?' Out West in Canada, today, July 2, 2015, forest fires are out of control and more than a few clustered near the Athabasca Oil sands. Gee! I wonder why? Could it possibly be that the Tar Sand investors want to clear the forest in order to find Bitumen oil closer to the surface. No! They wouldn't do that in a country that values its environment...or would they?
  "Oil sand mining has a large impact on the environment. Forests must be cleared for both open-pit and in situ mining. Pit mines can grow to more than 80 meters depth, as massive trucks remove up to 720,000 tons of sand every day. As of September 2011, roughly 663 square kilometers (256 square miles) of land had been disturbed for oil sand mining."
 I can only imagine what would happen if the Tar sands caught fire!

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Here is a report from NASA. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/

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The 2015 fire season got off to an unusually early start in Canada when blazes broke out in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alberta in late May. As the season has progressed, the air in western Canada—as well as large swaths of the United States—grew gray and hazy with smoke.

Beginning on June 28, a sharp trough in the jet stream sent a river of smoke streaming south into the United States. By June 29, smoke darkened the skies over much of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa.

On June 29, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of smoke from hundreds of wildfires in western Canada. Actively burning areas, detected by the thermal bands on MODIS, are outlined in red, while forests appear dark green. The image below shows shows a closer view of smoke and fires burning in northern Alberta near the Athabasca oil sands. While hundreds of fires are burning throughout Canada, some of the fires producing the most smoke are clustered in this area.