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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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$ C3 b( ]+ t) `) Q+ x' @/ cThe 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. & [& M# q0 z4 R+ F& b# ~/ l! S$ P( q
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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 2007.6 I% O3 m8 w; \
; n l7 ]. V( P! QAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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