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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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9 ^0 S9 l7 d) H* K( O/ t, m& EThe 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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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.! N+ X$ ?8 ?3 |5 r9 y! M* c( d6 i
3 x: Q4 E5 I9 C8 M8 DAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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