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CentrePort to focus on business expansion, rail facility
CentrePort Canada President and CEO Diane Gray is positive about continuing development of the 20,000-acre inland port straddling the boundary of the City of Winnipeg and RM of Rosser.
Gray commented on aspects of CentrePort’s 2013-14 business plan which sets out the corporation’s agenda for the next five years.
"The most obvious project is that, with a good construction season, by late fall-early winter CentrePort Canada Way should be open," she said.
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While 27 companies have opened new or expanded business facilities on 150 acres within CentrePort, further development of large-scale operations has hit a snag. A solution is needed in an international water rights dispute over the City of Winnipeg’s ability to provide water services to other municipalities. Brookside Industrial Park West is located in the RM of Rosser so water and wastewater services can’t be provided by Winnipeg even though a funding agreement to do so was signed.
According to the business plan, "Building on unserviced land restricts the size and scope of any new facility due to fire suppression regulations."
Gray said resolution of this situation is a top priority.
RM of Rosser reeve Frances Smee said a wastewater agreement is in the works and she’s confident the water service dispute will soon be resolved.
"We’re still moving ahead," she said.
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By: Andrea Geary Posted: 04/12/2013 1:00 AM
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our...202119431.html
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I take this as better use than usual news and hope it is resolved" SOON"..
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The free press article said 1.2 billion over 10 years, so very well could be the same one. The number of permanent jobs wouldn't be that many though. Regardless, Facebook said it was government privacy laws that nixed the project so, nothing that can be done from a local level about that.
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Facebook DC went to Iowa ^^(link), reasoning behind it???.Biff has a better idea with his discussions with people behind the scenes.
hey really liked us but in the end, Facebook and Manitoba were never destined to friend.
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Facebook pokes Manitoba
Social-media giant rejects province for data-farm
By: Dan Lett Posted: 05/6/2013
They really liked us but in the end, Facebook and Manitoba were never destined to friend.
Now that the deal is officially dead, details are starting to leak out about just how close Manitoba was to landing an enormous Facebook "data farm" on land in Headingley west of Winnipeg. The social-media giant spent months on in-depth site evaluation, only to withdraw from the project at the last moment because of concerns about Canadian privacy laws, sources confirmed.
Facebook came to Manitoba, the sources continued, because of low land costs and the availability of cheap, renewable energy. Data farms -- expansive warehouses full of high-powered servers necessary to store information from billions of users worldwide -- consume enormous amounts of electricity. As a social-media icon, Facebook reportedly puts a high price on accessing relatively clean energy for any of its large-scale developments, the type Manitoba Hydro can provide.
Ultimately, Facebook cited concerns about Canadian privacy laws in making its decision to pull out of Manitoba. Facebook has sparred with Canada's privacy commissioner in the past, and although privacy laws in the United States do differ significantly, sources close to the efforts to land the data farm said there was no hint of legal concerns until the very last moment.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...206232541.html
Take what you will from the above posted article?