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Article: Big Dig Part 1: Pipeline flows cash to Westman
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- The Brandon Sun
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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Two major pipeline projects spearheaded by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. are carving through Westman and leaving behind some major economic spinoffs. For the past few weeks, a team of Sun reporters and photographers investigated the impact the projects will have now and into the future for Westman.
It's hard not to notice the parade of trucks and hundreds of men and women who have called Brandon home for the past three months - but what exactly are they doing here?
Hundreds of contractors and subcontractors from all walks of life and from as far away as Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia arrived in Brandon to work on two major pipeline projects ...