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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. ( |2 I5 r" `% T0 s( Y1 @
4 F+ u: b- N+ N' x1 V" i1 YThe 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.) J5 ]+ U* }+ |- M4 Q# w: M
/ @& M, C: {( ^ vAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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