Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced Monday that Canada is experiencing its worst wildfire season of the 21st century, with more than 47,000 square kilometres burned so far this year.
It's been 22 years since Canada's boreal forest has been a carbon sink (due to various gov'ts forest management failures and the impacts of climate change) and we are well past the point of being able to fix this. :/
If we act now, you'll be able to have that fire in 20 years. But we're not doing it for our campfires. We're doing it because we know old people go hungry first and I want there to be enough food by the time I'm old so I still get some.
My dad said the quebec fire was started by someone tweeting to collect insurance on burning a a car or piece of farm equipment and the blaze got out of control, you heard anything like that?
I think the problem is the undergrowth, Canada is very sparsely populated so it’s not like they’re really clearing out the forest so to say, that way, when lightning does strike has plenty of kindling to keep the fires is going
My dad said the quebec fire was started by someone tweeting to collect insurance on burning a a car or piece of farm equipment and the blaze got out of control, you heard anything like that?
Only from climate change denying conspiracy nutbags.
After reading your comment i was intrigued and found this on the subject, basically woman in Alberta charged with 32 counts of arson after wildfire investigation. I will link story below
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6053436