look at what china wants to do

[Hopperbin]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102204779

They want build railroads anywhere and in the world and they will bankroll it.

[cottonpicken]

Well they buit the first ones so what the hell.

[hedgehog]

china built the first railway?
it was in britain.

[cottonpicken]

We brought a bunch over to punch through the mountains,semi-slave labour force,quite a few died.

[sumdumguy]

My grandfather said something to that effect, but I didn't pay much attention and therefore skipped the details. If that's what it takes, shame on Canada.

[dmlfarmer]

What will happen to Can ag if China builds the infrastructure needed in Africa to modernize agriculture there. The Dem. Rep. of Congo has already offered to lease up to 247,100 sq miles of agricultural quality land to investors willing to build the infrastructure needed to export the commodities grown and produced.

Instead we should be encouraging the Chinese to build the proposed Bearing Strait railway. Think of the efficiencies if we could ship grains from our existing inland terminals by rail all the way to China. Not to mention the return of cheaper fertilizer. Or new design grain cars which could be converted for moving containers back. And while at it we could lay adjoining pipeline along side to move bitumen to China.

[dmlfarmer]

http://www.interbering.com/

[bucket]

This is very interesting. My MP David Anderson told me a few short months ago that no one was interested in running on canadian rails let alone building them.

Wow.

Ask them over for a dinner and work out the details and quick. Before someone else gets the deal.

Did our illustrious ag minister ask while he was in china?

[bucket]

I would be happy if they would just bring the locomotives over and a few energetic workers. A quick legislative change with open running rights and boom. The **** with CN and CP.

[grower99]

Mr. Anderson maybe got his speaking notes mixed up.He might have been referring to the provincial highways in his constituency.

[Oliver88]

This railway/tunnel through the Bearing Strait looks like a great idea.
This would be great news for Western Canadian grain, potash, oil, uranium exporters.

Hopefully China, Russia, USA, Canada and others all get on board with this.

Maybe a pipeline for oil beside the tracks could also be built??

[Hopperbin]

Justed looked at a globe and realized one can almost draw a straight line from western canadian farmland into china over land through that straight. Immagine the running rights and amount of rail companies that could use the lines. Could we actually have a freight advantage? What kind of terrain involved?

[dmlfarmer]

A rail link through the Bering Strait has been proposed for over a century by many people. Technically it is feasible. It is the massive cost that is preventing it. But that hurdle may be overcome by China's willingness to invest in infrastructure. Russia is also on board for rail infrastructure investment to open up Siberia. North America needs more rail primarily to move goods to and from Asia. Why go to port when we could go right to Asia?

More importantly, a transportation corridor overland could include highway and pipelines all in one package.

A cooperative project between NA, China, Russia, Korea, and Japan would do more for world peace than all the trade talks and peace talks.

Most importantly, the potential stimulus of this could pull us out of the continuing economic slump just as WWII war industries did from the 30's.
And the economic benefits that result from this would last for decades after the rail is completed.

[bucket]

Providing some group of terrorists or an earthquake didn't blow it up.

I agree it would do more good than any war effort to date.

[hedgehog]

The channel tunnel was the worst thing ever for british farming.
cheap fresh produce pours in at previously impossible levels .
stormy weather problems for ferries used to keep milk and other perishables out, not to mention the unwanted people inside the containers.