Aviation fuel shortage affects some B.C. businesses

A shortage of aviation fuel is causing problems successful B.C.

Avgas is nan type of aviation substance utilized successful mini piston engine-powered craft and helicopters and operates craft that do not usage pitchy fuel.

The main refinery of Avgas for Canada is successful Edmonton and it has been closed for much than 2 weeks. It is unclear erstwhile it will afloat reopen.

Sky Helicopters successful Pitt Meadows offers tours astir southwest B.C. and unit has been heading southbound of nan separator pinch elephantine jerrycans to bring substance backmost from nan United States.

“We had a batch of weddings, elopements, proposals and visitors from each complete nan world, we conscionable didn’t want to telephone and say, ‘We’re sorry, your wedding is cancelled because we can’t get our hands connected fuel,'” Kevin Pearce, president of Sky Helicopters told Global News.

“So, we wanted to benignant of research each action earlier we did that, and we were capable to travel up pinch a solution, temporarily.”

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The institution that runs Boundary Bay Airport said it has been capable to get capable substance for nan halfway businesses that run retired of nan facility, but they person told transient operators, specified arsenic backstage level owners, location is nary substance for them.

“A batch of this craft are really captious pieces to connectivity astir B.C.,” Kathy Delisser pinch Alpha Aviation said.

“It’s a large deed to immoderate communities.”

Imperial Oil, which runs nan Avgas Refinery, said it hopes to person immoderate re-supply successful early August.