New rail lines can be built

[blackpowder]

April Fool's????

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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.

[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.

[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?

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

[fjlip]

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

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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.

[Daylate]

Churchhill?

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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?