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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& [" D+ u6 t- t8 d; w
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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.
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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 `! `# m- [7 l. U) ?& S
8 k9 |& u( C; a' L aAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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