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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, ]8 z! V8 J5 i
5 T2 `& x: R' V, Z4 K; [1 v8 DThe 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. 4 W7 ~9 j% Q+ b4 H# ^
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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.
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$ e' b' ?# C$ V& b6 E; xAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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