Manitoba flood: Rain, flood waters shut down oil industry – CBC
Oil workers go weeks without work, pay in Manitoba’s soggy oilfields
Wet weather and flooding in Manitoba is hitting the oil industry hard.
Much of the province’s oil patch is in the same area, inundated with water from heavy rain and overland flooding that hit during the Canada Day weekend.
The ground is too wet to drill. The majority of wells were shut down during the flooding and roads are still too damaged for trucks transporting oil and equipment.
“It’s pretty sad. It’s really sad because a lot of us in the area depend on it,” said Kevin Dekeyser, who works in the oil-service industry preparing drill sites.
