New rail lines can be built

[bucket]

So a 4.7 billion dollar deal has been signed for a new rail line to a port facility ....700kms of new rail...

Who would have thunk it?

[Daylate]

Churchhill?

[bucket]

The Cree Nation Government says a $4.7 billion economic development project signed Monday with the province of Quebec is the Cree vision of development and represents a "clear break from the past colonial and paternalistic government policies" that kept their communities underdeveloped.*

The Grande Alliance project includes a road, a railway and a deep sea port for the most northern Cree community of Whapmagoostui, located on the shore of Hudson Bay, currently accessible only by air.

The deal also includes 700 kilometres of new railway between the non-Indigenous Abitibi community of Matagami and Whapmagoostui, as well as hundreds of kilometres of new and upgraded roads and new power lines, according to Cree Grand Chief Abel Bosum.

[fjlip]

Farmers should go block it and demand some for us, even repair the crap we have here!

[bucket]

Quebec and natives....guess who's actually paying for it?

[Oliver88]

So a 4.7 billion dollar deal has been signed for a new rail line to a port facility ....700kms of new rail...

Who would have thunk it?

$6.7 million/km or $10.8 million/mile?

Is SNC-Lavalin or Bombardier involved?

[TASFarms]

What’s going to move on that rail line? The way the govt goes that will cost 20 billion and have to walk away after they spend 10 billion to save tax payers 10 billion.

[checking]

Can you imagine the environmental destruction that 700 kms of new rail line will do?

This can't be approved. No bloody way that blockades won't go up. My great grandmother's cour de bois ancestors will see to it. One of them trapped on that corridor.

[blackpowder]

April Fool's????

[walterm]

Don't know if any truth to this but sure makes you think! We are farming twice as much land with continuous cropping, growing twice the yield varieties and farming practices yet haven't changed our rail system?

Kinda reminds me of oil industry produce more without any thought of how to get it to market.

Maybe time to back up and get infrastructure in place to handle production.

[Oliver88]

If we could invest $4.7 million to improve our railway efficiency and reduce our freight rates what would be the priority?

Twin rail lines going to west coast?
Add North-South rail lines that could tie into the PNW shipping?
Increase holding capacity in Prince Rupert or Vancouver?
Build a new line to Churchill?
Build new bins on Wiseguy and Bucket farms?

[bucket]

I would have zero problem with an incentive program for grain cos to build the capacity at the tracks...