BNN | One person is in stable condition after blaze at Syncrude oil sands plant The Globe and Mail The status of operations at Syncrude, one of Canada's largest oil sands mining and processing ventures, was not immediately known. Video and pictures posted to social media showed flames leaping from the top of a facility, and thick black smoke rising. Syncrude responding to fire at oil sands site near Fort McMurray Uncertainty hangs over embattled Fort Mac as oil industry languishes |