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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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8 M- ^5 y2 f/ D( @2 ^/ B9 j$ @5 ~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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; a' U, V! }/ D( i2 n8 ~: X3 s9 R# {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.* l$ Y2 t0 J8 }
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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