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This is the most significant good news in three years, and maybe we have finally turned the corner in this region … . Neil Shelly, executive director of the heartland association
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- b# f/ E! B$ |5 n3 b( X2 f: F7 X* xThe champagne was put on ice in Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Tuesday after the province selected North West Upgrading for negotiations toward a deal to handle 75,000 barrels per day of bitumen.
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- H+ b$ p+ I: `" d( Z( nThe corks will pop later this year — if and when a formal contract is signed, which would mean a spring 2011 start on construction of the upgrader project that was halted in 2007.: W# m, O3 L- A' O" ~: v& N
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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