If you wanted to visit Churchill, ig do it now before it gets destroyed by the fossil fuel industry.
Damn, that was something I had wanted to do actually, but I definitely can’t right now. Should’ve done it earlier.
Maybe those interests that want to ship via Churchill will be turned down again? Even Heather Stephenson declined to ship AB oil via Churchill a couple of years ago (despite putting some funding into the rail line even), and Wab Kinew would hopefully be less amenable to it than she would.
I hope they leave it alone, it has a pretty good tourist economy already.
You should definitely go there, I went there in summer 2022, it’s beautiful. Go paddleboard with the beluga whales, well worth it! If you stick your head in the water at the beach, you can hear them chant.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Some politicians, including federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, have also touted transporting oil through Churchill, but that has been denounced by environmentalists.
For example, the Arctic Gateway Group — a partnership of dozens of First Nation and Bayline communities that owns and operates the rail line — reached an agreement late last year to ship up to 20,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate mined by Hudbay.
Other opportunities for the railway and port include the arrival of more cruise ships and a twice-weekly freight service launching this year to help supply food and fuel to communities like those in Nunvaut’s Kivalliq region, the source said.
The land link to the south, privatized after the federal government sold the Canadian National Railway in 1995, runs through remote, boggy terrain and has been prone to defects, cutting off northern communities from each other.
The previous Manitoba PC government explored the idea of building another deepwater port off Hudson Bay as part of a plan to ship potash from Saskatchewan and petroleum products from Alberta across the Arctic Ocean.
One day before the start of a pre-election blackout on government spending announcements last summer, the province committed $6.7 million for a feasibility study on the proposal, called the NeeStaNan project.
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