Alberta’s largest-ever evacuation from a wildfire has forced tens of thousands people to flee Fort McMurray and prompted Suncor Energy Inc. to reduce output in Canada’s main oil-sands region. Oil and gas companies at the heart of the region’s economy including Suncor, Syncrude Canada Ltd. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are putting up evacuated residents at work camps north of the community as officials called for a mandatory evacuation of all of Fort McMurray’s 80,000-some residents. Suncor said it is reducing output at its facilities in the region to allow workers and their families to get to safety. Wildfire outside Fort McMurray on May 3. The wildfire is the latest blow to a community already coping with the economic toll of the oil price downturn in one of the world’s most-expensive places to extract crude. More than 40,000 oil and gas jobs have been cut in Canada since the […]