“It’s devastating. Just tragic. The city needs to be completely rebuilt.”
Those were the words Viking West’s President Mike Schlender used recently when the conversation shifted to the wildfire in the northern Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Mike is originally from Alberta and knows the economic landscape well. Come to think of it, Mike and his team at Viking know the physical landscape pretty well, too. The province’s oil lies beneath Fort McMurray and comes up through refineries and eventually into veins of pipe that open up to consumers all over the world.