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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 0 \( o$ K" `1 i. Z2 ^4 J
 7 B- v9 P7 k6 h5 |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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 - e( ~; I; }6 B3 P- j3 kThe 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 2007.6 Y3 M& N  Q0 D0 |/ L% L
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 About 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases.
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