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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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0 Z1 E; [* L1 x/ }The 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. 3 E3 a7 T _9 @% r9 E/ Y9 Q f
3 i& a1 C8 ^2 S2 ?% x- DThe 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.% P. i: m6 i: y; A
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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