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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 x+ _3 f! ?0 w' z O. w T0 aThe 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. 9 Z: A( i5 ]9 F% l U9 c
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The 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.
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( |6 x8 E+ u! D. q' S9 C( XAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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