PALLISER
Transmission lines -- $667 million Power Generation -- $432.5 million Industrial -- $293 million Private/commercial -- $43.5 million Public Infrastructure -- $91.8 million Public Buildings -- $400.7 million Highways - $37.2 million Defence -- $7.4 million Total -- $1,973.1 million
BATTLE RIVER
Industrial/pipelines -- $2,055 million Power Generation $160.0 million Public Buildings -- $63.8 million Highways -- $13.5 million Defence -- $39.3 million Total -- $2,331.6 million
NORTHEAST
Oilsands -- $10,302 million Public works -- $195.3 million Power Generation -- $130 million Industrial -- $75.0 million Public Buildings -- $319.6 million Highways -- $14.3 million Defence -- $120 million Total (less oilsands) -- $854.2 million
Source: Alberta Enterprise inventory of major projects, as of Jan. 22, 2013.
Note: Projects which will have a principal construction outside the listed regions are not factored into totals, these include the Keystone XL pipeline and the $1.65 billion Northeast Alberta transmission line.
By COLLIN GALLANT
Medicine Hat was the first important stop for opening up the west when the railroad arrived in what would become Alberta.
Now, business leaders and politicians want to make it an important junction point for developing the 21st century energy bonanza in Alberta’s north.
The oilsands are destination for billions of dollars worth of equipment and supplies, ancillary services need to be stocked, plants need to be built, staffed, and powered, and it all has to flow northward.
Spanning the continent
It takes a lot of people to make it work but there has been really good progress.
Some see it as a wide-open opportunity in wide-open eastern Alberta, but it is an idea that is hardly new.
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“It’s an idea that’s been around for a long time,” said Alan Hyland, the former MLA for Cypress-Redcliff, now a 40 Mile county councillor and chair of the Palliser Economic Partnership.
In the mid-1980s Hyland and elected officials in Southeastern Alberta began pushing for increased border access and upgraded roads.
More recently the three major regions that are stacked from the Montana border to the top of the province have created the Eastern Alberta Trade Corridor in hopes of moving forward with economic development in the region.
“Now we have the whole eastern side of the province supporting us,” said Hyland.
“What we’re trying to do is get people together. Companies that get together know how much they can handle together, it’s been something we’ve pushed.”
Attendees of the Ports-to-Plains conference listen to a presentation at Medicine Hat Lodge in October 2012.
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Those economic development regions — Palliser, Battle River, and Alberta HUB in northeastern Alberta — have been formally working closely with Ports-to-Plains trade corridor alliance, a Texas-based lobby group that claims membership from Mexico to northern Alberta. Formally incorporating as Ports' third Alliance would put them on equal footing alongside the Heartland Expressway in the U.S. Rockies and the Roosevelt Expressway in North and South Dakota.
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