The project that I managed, the Alaska-Canada rail link project for the State of Alaska and the Government of Yukon, was to look at linking the Alaska railroad, which will shortly terminate at Delta Junction in Alaska, near Fairbanks, and to tie that all the way into the continental rail system. Over the course of our study, we decided that the best place to tie in with the Canadian National Railway was at Hazelton in northern British Columbia.
The impetus at that time for that railway was to move resources to ports. That's to say mineral resources, not oil and gas resources. The issue of how you get Athabasca oil bitumen to market, not just to U.S. markets but to offshore markets, has recently shone the light back on the Alaska-Canada rail link project.
I had the sad duty of telling the Governor of Alaska and the Premier of Yukon that they could not afford to build the Alaska-Canada rail link with the revenues that the mining resource industry would provide. The oil and gas industry has enough revenue to support that.
To answer your question specifically, the route is from Fort McMurray through Canada to that same Delta Junction, but not to tie in with the Alaska railroad, to tie in with the Alyeska pipeline to go to the port of Valdez, where there's an existing oil terminal.
That's the concept, to take advantage of an existing Pacific coast oil terminal that's already there and tie it in with a rail link to the Athabasca oil sands. It would basically be along the same route that we looked at for mineral resources, but now with oil resources.