1. SOUTH CALGARY HOSPITAL
A 269 in-patient-bed hospital, officially called South Health Campus, in city’s rapidly growing southern suburbs.
STATUS: Opening in phases this year.
COST: $1.3-billion. (Alberta Health Services)
2. ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM
A 36,000-square-metre provincial museum in downtown Edmonton due to open in 2016.STATUS: Under construction.COST: $340-million.
3. CALGARY AND EDMONTON RING ROADS
A two-decade-long project to build freeways that ring both cities.
STATUS: 90 per cent complete in Edmonton with 71 kilometres built; 70 per cent complete in Calgary with 70 kilometres built.
COST: $6-billion spent by Alberta so far; more has been spent by Ottawa, and more spending will come. (Jason Franson for The Globe and Mail)
4. CARBON CAPTUREThree industrial projects – Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, Shell Quest and Swan Hills Sunfuels – that the province is heavily subsidizing in hopes of reducing Alberta's greenhouse gas emissions by 4.1 million tonnes annually beginning in 2015.
STATUS: Under development.
COST: $2-billion committed. (Nathan VanderKlippe/The Globe and Mail)
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