Farmers of North America has picked Belle Plaine, Sask, to
build its $1.7-billion plant to produce nitrogen fertilizer.
“For strategic reasons it’s a very
good site,” FNA spokesperson Bob Friesen said in an interview Wednesday during
the Farm Progress Show.
The Belle Plaine site is about 40
km west of Regina, is served by both national railways, has good roads, ample
water and natural gas, Friesen said.
The company says construction will
employ about 1,900 people. It will a staff of 170 to run the plant.
Friesen said FNA hopes to have the plant
called Project N running by 2017.
The latest announcement is “another
stake in the ground to move us forward,” he said.
