Sneh Seetal, spokeswoman for Suncor, Petro-Canada's parent company, says an unplanned outage recently at its Edmonton refinery is contributing to the gas shortage. We are bringing in additional supply for our Edmonton refinery and we are also restarting our oil sands operations in a safe and staged manner." If you're driving in Western Canada and need to get gas, don't be surprised if your local Petro-Canada station doesn't have any. Many Petro-Canada outlets in four provinces were either out of gas or quickly running out Friday morning. The cumulative impact of the fires and the unplanned outage at Edmonton was unanticipated," Seetal said.

Source: CBC News June 03, 2016 13:47 UTC