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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 association4 S' i) T l% B S) |' M+ j
4 m9 S6 T& T% x% j' v% p* GThe 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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/ k x" d/ g; T$ G% G, c, sThe 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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, ?( E" ^" g1 i( P$ QAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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