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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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, X& l7 \4 O' [8 R1 L# J6 DThe 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. 1 d3 k6 z; @6 T/ w# V
5 e V2 E; r' c$ P' {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$ @" R( S/ C t
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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