Alberta Premier Danielle Smith bringing in arson investigators, refuses to blame climate change for unprecedented wildfires
Premier Danielle Smith says the government is bringing in arson investigators from outside the province to trace the cause of some wildfires during an unprecedented season in Alberta.
“Every expert that we talk to indicates the significant factor that climate change is playing on our susceptibility to wildfire and on the conditions that lead to these massive blazes that are happening earlier and earlier in the season.”“We are bringing in arson investigators from outside the province,” she said. “We have almost 175 fires with no known cause at the moment. Sometimes they are very easy to trace – when you have lightning storms, it’s easy to trace.
Smith again didn’t acknowledge his comment, instead suggesting the Alberta government needs to do a better job building fireguards around communities. Xianli Wang, a fire research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, said climate change is a major factor. No matter how they start, though, he said hot and dry conditions also make the fuel – plants and logs in the forests – drier so fires burn more intensely and cover more ground.
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