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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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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. . |( B8 y1 K( J& _; s8 {
: z: U/ c- F9 ^9 MThe 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. W" a3 F) L1 W9 X" }+ a) I
8 z& j! H0 u1 H$ K: mAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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