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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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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. ) J2 K0 L+ W: J' x% R
) i P# N: Q! Y( r1 P5 N0 K( I) `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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' L6 z1 u1 L0 e7 |3 b6 z/ T% rAbout 3,000 workers will be needed in each of the three planned phases. |
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