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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* l5 N) E. W& S5 C
$ c' Z8 s* }6 @, p/ @$ n3 ]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.
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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./ D5 @; l1 B* B( M1 ?. v. O
7 P3 G7 g& c. L5 R4 z! ]/ RAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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