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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 association9 t- ^- e! Q9 g% C8 G
/ t/ }4 ~- u4 H/ T8 `5 A- 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.
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2 S) Q( c- w: k% E5 e7 f' 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 2007.3 W( X$ U1 m, Y2 T
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About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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