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Flooded Canadian towns in gas heartland declare state of emergency
2016-06-17 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Intense flooding has prompted two northern communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia to declare states of emergency, just a month after forest fires prompted evacuations in the region. The city of Dawson Creek, which sits atop the gas rich Montney formation, declared a state of emergency on Friday due to heavy rain that washed out bridges, flooded sewers and forced some 60 people from their homes, the mayor said. "It was a crazy, crazy couple of days," Mayor Dale Bumstead said,...
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