The town of Norman Wells, N.W.T., is running low on aviation fuel — forcing some airlines to make adjustments and possibly throwing a wrench in people’s holiday travel plans.
Pascal Audet, the town’s deputy mayor, says it’s because low water on the Mackenzie River this year, along with the summer wildfires, disrupted the normal shipment of fuel to the community.
“It was kind of a double whammy there of of natural disasters so to speak, and that caused us not to get resupplied correctly,” Audet said.
“And here we are now, we’ve got a shortage of jet fuel now because of that.”
Norman Wells is about 700
