Uncontrolled forest fires forced the evacuation of some 8,000 oil-sands workers late Monday, nearly two weeks after more than 80,000 other people fled blazes that destroyed part of a nearby town in Western Canada’s Alberta province. The move threatens to further delay a restart of at least one million barrels a day in oil-sands production sidelined by the forest fires. Canadian oil sands production averaged 2.5 million barrels a day last year, much of which was imported by the U.S. for refining into petroleum products. The mandatory evacuation order issued by the local municipal government affects staff who remained or returned after major oil sands operators in the area shut down their operations earlier this month. That came after wildfires destroyed 2,400 houses and other buildings in the town of Fort McMurray, a […]