Oilsands pumps put to work in flooded Fort McMurray

A recovery plan is underway in one area of the flooded lower townsite of Fort McMurray, where crews started pumping out 400,000 cubic metres of water Tuesday evening.READ MORE: Red Cross on its way to Fort McMurray, but no ask of help made of Ottawa yet: officialsThe pumps, provided by Syncrude, remove close to 14,000 gallons of water per minute. It will take about five days to remove an estimated 400,000 cubic metres of water from Taiga Nova Eco-Industrial Park.Wood Buffalo municipal mayor Don