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The Firebag River is a river in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. It gets its name from the traditional bags Aboriginals once used to carry fire-starting flints. It originates in ''Firebag Lake'' in northwestern Saskatchewan, flows west into Alberta, and discharges in the Athabasca River 65 km north of Fort MacKay. The length of the river is approximately 170 km, and the average discharge at the Athabasca River confluence is 20 m³/s.〔(Alberta Environment ) - Firebag River discharge〕 The southern tract of ''Marguerite River Wildland''〔(Alberta Community Development ) - Marguerite River Wildland Park〕 protects part of the river valley, and a recreation park for Northeast Alberta Region located along the river has been proposed in 1980〔(Alberta Wilderness Association ) - McClelland Lake Wetland history〕 Suncor has an SAGD project in production (the ''Firebag in-situ operation''), extracting bitumen from the oil sands of the McMurray Formation located in the river basin.〔(Suncor ) - Firebag in-situ oil sands facility〕 ==See also== *List of rivers of Alberta *List of rivers of Saskatchewan 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Firebag River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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