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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. 1 K! A. D8 o9 c& B- N; W
1 a% ` l. Z3 q! i+ X9 q8 cThe 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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) b$ }) |0 x% c! K2 DAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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