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Alberta manufacturing sales on the rise

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CALGARY— Manufacturing sales in Alberta increased 0.5 per cent to $6.2 billion in August, according to Statistics Canada.

Across the country, sales rose 1.5 per cent to $49.5 billion in August, the highest sales level since March 2012. The gain largely reflected increases in the petroleum and coal products, and motor vehicle industries, explained the federal agency on Tuesday.

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There are local opportunities for ‘industrial ecology’

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By working together, government and industry can build large industrial complexes while protecting their environment.

A Lethbridge geographer cited an Australian success Thursday, to show how manufacturing plants and refineries can integrate their operations and use each other’s byproducts.

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