North West Redwater partnership celebrates breaking ground on Phase 1 on Sturgeon Refinery
CALGARY, Sept. 20, 2013 /CNW/ ` North West Redwater Partnership (NWR), a partnership between North West Upgrading Inc. (NWU) and Canadian Natural Upgrading Limited (CNUL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Natural Resources Limited (Canadian Natural), today celebrated the recent ground-breaking of the Sturgeon Refinery, located in the Alberta Industrial Heartland. The event took place at the future site of the refinery, and included speeches from the Honourable Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta; Ian MacGregor, Chairman of NWU and Doug Bertsch, VP Regulatory and Stakeholder Affairs, NWR.
`This refinery, the first to be built in Canada in almost 30 years, is further proof of the can-do attitude that Albertans embody,` said Premier Alison Redford. `By supplying a reliable source of bitumen from the Bitumen-Royalty-In-Kind program, our government is working with industry to grow the value-added sector as part of our Building Alberta Plan.`
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