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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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# B3 s2 H# D3 s* L) b4 BThe 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. ' P# m) T. D- Z" `. V$ g8 q
$ c( a# U1 U+ H* l& n6 {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.. v$ `& |, k# y
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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