Transport committee  They're simply going to transport it more efficiently and in larger quantities that are needed. It's a general cargo railroad with a passenger component to it. It's a simple method of flying stuff in or driving it in on an ice road. Heating is done through burning Bunsen burners

Transport committee  As mentioned earlier, we're looking at a late-June-to-July application going in, depending on our consultation with indigenous communities on the route. That's going to dictate, essentially, how long the process will take. I mentioned earlier that Bill C-69 was sort of designed w

Transport committee  As you construct, it's very inexpensive to lay fibre optic cable. That's already in the engineering plan, so along the route we will have fibre optic capabilities, and those lines can branch out to the communities and the municipalities that are along the route.

Transport committee  There are several things that are being done. We have a master agreement with Alaska Railroad and we're partners, so in effect we're already operating up north, and some of the mitigation practices we're getting from them. We're also looking at mitigation practices that were in

Transport committee  J.P., do you want me to take a crack at this one?

Transport committee  We're going to be the first major project to go through this new process. The new process emphasizes indigenous consultation. New scares everybody, but the changes were made to address the current realities of climate change that are affecting all of us in this day and age. There

Transport committee  It's massive. JP is our president in Canada and he runs something we like to call the “NET”, which is the northern engagement team. It arguably has the biggest budget. A2A spends several million dollars a month on this in terms of engineering and consultation. Those are the two m

Transport committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. It's such an honour to be invited to speak. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to the members of this committee for having us this morning. My name is Sean McCoshen and I am the chair and founder of the Alaska to Alberta Railway, known as A2A Rail.