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CANNABIS OPERATORS GET SET TO TURN OVER SOME NEW LEAF AND BUD With pot legalization just around the corner , marijuana growing operations are popping up across Alberta. In fact a new cannabis production facility near Edmonton, in a converted modular home factory, could be among the largest in the country. Freedom Cannabis is working to capitalize on the multi-billion-dollar industry by converting the 125,000-square-foot former factory in Acheson, just west of the city. The company must complete the facility and get its licence from Health Canada, but it plans to start production in late 2018 or early 2019. When operational, it could employ about 150 people. Even bigger will be a massive greenhouse for recreational marijuana coming to Alberta’s southernmost city. A Calgary company called Fifty First Parallel has purchased five acres of land at a
And there’s more. If all goes according to plan, the company will purchase another five acres of land in 2020 and build a 100,000-sq.-ft. greenhouse. When complete, the facility would produce up to 12,600 kg of recreational marijuana each year, for distribution in Alberta. New jobs created will, like the Edmonton project, total about 150.
Lethbridge industrial park, where it will build a 180,000-square-foot greenhouse in three phases. The company expects to start the first phase—a 50,000-square-
foot greenhouse with the capacity to produce 3,500 kilograms of cannabis per year— early in 2018. In late 2019, the company hopes to move forward with the construction of the second phase, a 30,000-sq.-ft. extension of the first greenhouse that will increase production by 2,100 kg per year.
WASTEWATER TREATMENT RECEIVES ALBERTA GOVERNMENT SUPPORT To better protect the health of small-town residents, all three levels of government are funding more than $16 million in improvements to aging wastewater treatment and other water facilities. The towns of Vermillion, Barrhead, and St. Paul will receive upgrades to increase
capacity and better meet the needs of the population. The Municipal District of Pincher Creek will build the hamlet of Beaver Mines a new water reservoir to ensure an emergency supply of clean water.
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