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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: q9 Q. w C' V
) B# g p2 V G7 B8 U- BThe 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.
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! q4 t* [" s+ \& B, n( s7 m, rAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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