SASKATOON – It will be a few weeks yet before Cargill Ltd. is ready to announce the site of its new oilseed crushing plant.
Press reports last week indicated the company had selected a site just southeast of Saskatoon, but a senior company official said that is not true.
“We haven’t made our decision yet,” said Barbara Isman, assistant vice-president for corporate affairs at Cargill.
The company is still looking at possible sites in Saskatchewan and Alberta and wants to carry out some environmental impact assessment in both provinces before making the final selection.
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Robert Thurmeier, administrator of the rural municipality of Blucher, which has been cited as the likely location for the plant, said he believes his area is on Cargill’s short list, but there’s nothing to announce yet.
“We’d like to be able to announce ‘yes, it’s coming here’ but I think it’s all hearsay and speculation right now,” said Thurmeier.
“Cargill hasn’t told us definitively if they are moving here or where.”
Cargill wants to build by the fall of 1996, a plant with an annual crush of 500,000 tonnes, boosting Canada’s crushing capacity by at least 20 percent.
