Ottawa-Sana
Heavy rains triggered landslides that forced the evacuation of an entire town and forced a shutdown of an oil pipeline in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.
Reuters quoted local authorities as saying today that they had asked all 8,000 citizens to leave after the rising waters forced the closure of the sewage treatment plant in Merritt, northeast of Vancouver, and forced the closure of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which transports crude from Alberta to the ocean coast. Quiet.
The storm is the second weather-related disaster to hit the Pacific Province in a few months.
