[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[crazy canuck]

Huge news today from the federal government regarding development of the Port of Vancouver.  For those of you who may not have been following the regulatory difficulties of expanding the Port of Vancouver with keen interest, this has been going on for more than a decade. I can remember doing some initial work on this about 15 years ago.

And now finally, a light at the end of the tunnel

A proposal for a potential pipeline terminus and multibillion-dollar expansion of the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 in Delta, B.C., is being referred to the Major Projects Office.

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon said in a press conference in Delta on Thursday that he has referred the Port of Vancouver Gateway Strategy to the MPO. This project includes the expansion of the container shipping terminal and a proposal for a terminal for Alberta's West Coast Oil Pipeline in the region.

The expansion of RBT2 has been through more than a decade of regulatory reviews. The investment will expand the site into a three-berth terminus. It promises to deliver 17,000 jobs to the region and enable an additional $100-billion of new container trade annually

[viper37]

13 years after the events of Lac Mégantic where all of the city-center was burnt down following a train disaster (see here) and here, the TSB has approved a bypass track around the city of Mégantic (yes, the trains were still going through the city).

Just a few weeks after another train derailment and near disaster near the city of Repentigny where grave security concerns by the CN had been noticed for 3 years without anything happening.

Well, can't say our (Federal) govt isn't doing anything for its citizens.

[Grey Fox]

Always amazes me how all Train track owners don't seem to ever have any money.

[viper37]

Always amazes me how all Train track owners don't seem to ever have any money.

The CN was not generating profits when it was a public company, it's a poor man's business.

[viper37]

Well this is something else:

Dramatic video shows wildfire surround freight train in Canada - July 13th

The CN said they were evacuated safely, but they didn't exactly said how.

They had to take a run for it:
New details emerge from union on railworkers' escape from hellish Ontario wildfire