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Oct 15, 2008

SHORTAGE * Canada - Fuel woes continue to plague truckers in Alberta

Alberta,Canada -Land Line Magazine (USA), by Clarissa Kell-Holland -October 13, 2008: -- For more than a week now, truckers like Dan Dickey of Chilliwack, British Columbia, have been scrambling around to find fuel... That’s because supplies to some of the “cardlocks,” aka unmanned fuel stations, in the province of Alberta, Canada, are being rationed and have run out of diesel because of scheduled maintenance and unexpected production problems at Western Canadian refineries... Since Monday, Oct. 6, Dickey said he has been tracking the fuel situation in Western Canada after trying to fuel up in Edmonton. Every cardlock but one was out. That’s when he said he became aware of the fuel shortage problem there... On Monday, Husky Energy Inc. was reporting that cardlocks and fueling stations in Edmonton, Edson, Red Deer and Lethbridge were out of fuel, while supplies at 13 other cardlocks in Western Canada remained critically low... Petro-Canada was reporting that 16 of its Petro-Pass sites were out of diesel on Friday, Oct. 10...

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