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Several Petro-Canada gas stations in the Interior of B.C. are running out of gas because of the wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alta., and a refinery outage in Edmonton.

Sneh Seetal, a spokesperson for Suncor, Petro Canada’s parent company that supplies the gas, said there are shortages across Western Canada and the Interior of B.C. because of an unplanned unit outage at the Edmonton refinery, which has slowed production of both diesel and gasoline.

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“The refinery continues to operate but at reduced rates,” said Seetal. “We understand that it is an inconvenience for customers and we have created a team dedicated to the issue.”

The company is also dealing with a lack of crude supply from Fort McMurray because of the wildfires. “We have sourced an additional supply of crude…but then we had the unplanned outage last Friday,” said Seetal.

Seetal said it is difficult to say when supplies will be back to normal, but added that the company has a dedicated team set up to deal with the gas shortage.