Why isn’t Churchill used for oil transportation?

[blackpowder]

Well. I dunno what that means but Churchill always a *** joke.
No Gulf current and no Soviet ice breakers.
A warm and fuzzy left over from the early fifty's when we thought we still had weight.

[makar]

All I know in the 70s I hated loading those frigging cp boxcars for churchill, and I am in the peace country on a cn line, like or not it was cwb doing, you would think someone was closer but cost effective just applies on the producer level.

[seldomseen]

I think Churchill would work if there was some money put in it but that will never happen. Where the grain goes and where oil goes there is money and jobs and Churchill has no voters.

[bucket]

All I know in the 70s I hated loading those frigging cp boxcars for churchill, and I am in the peace country on a cn line, like or not it was cwb doing, you would think someone was closer but cost effective just applies on the producer level.

Don't forget when the CWB was short instead of paying producers a premium...they gave it to the railways and hauled the grain back from churchill to vancouver...

Churchill was storage....

[Misterjade9]

Churchill is a non issue as a place to export from because we really don't do enough business with that part of the world anymore. We don't sell wheat to Russia and not much goes into Europe. That being said I fully believe that Churchill could be a great place to receive imported goods such as Russian fert. It is really Canada's only deep water northern port. How the fat man bamboozled the feds into fixing a railroad that they already had given him money to buy it is beyond me.

[littledoggie]

Have you heard of the A2A railroad proposal? Alaska to Alberta. Can be seen here:

http://www.a2arail.com/index.html

[jazz]

Have you heard of the A2A railroad proposal? Alaska to Alberta. Can be seen here:

http://www.a2arail.com/index.html

If a railway can be built, so can a pipeline in the same corridor. It will happen after we cut off our eastern welfare anchors.

[Rareearth]

Don’t forget the water diversion from the north through the prairies.

[Oliver88]

Have you heard of the A2A railroad proposal? Alaska to Alberta. Can be seen here:

http://www.a2arail.com/index.html

Alaska senate voted 19-0 in favour of improved rail access to lower their cost of goods.
Overall very interesting infrastructure idea that would get more Alberta oil loaded into super tankers. It appears Alaska is 100% in favour of more economic activity.....unlike BC.

Hopefully they eventually include a oil pipeline on the same corridor. (Two separate groups appear to be competing to complete this project.)