Anger flares as wildfire-hit Canadian city struggles to rebuild

By Nia Williams

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Some five months after the wildfires that devastated Fort McMurray were extinguished, anger over red tape and the slow pace of insurance payouts and permit issuance is flaring in the remote northern Canadian city.

More than 1,900 structures were destroyed by the wildfire last May, which forced the evacuation of about 90,000 residents and shut in more than a million barrels per day of crude output from the area around Canada’s oil capital in the province of Alberta.

Around 80,000 people have returned, according to Red Cross estimates, but most of those who came back to …
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