Yet another idea, and plan has surfaced. The G 7 G Railway. This one is apparently, seeking to resolve some of the Indigenous Peoples problems that have been aluded to in the concurreently running Thread on this Forum regarding the A 2 A Railway Project.
Possibly, what may be developing is a similar situation to the Central Pacific- Union Pacific rivalry? Might even be, a newer Canadian version of the American Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 ?
What seems to be developing or already developed are competing plans over the [point to point} Ft.McMurray Alberta to Delta Junction, Alaska.
The A2A Rwy seems to have the ‘edge’ at this point(?)
I’m Not exactly sure, where the G 7 G Rwy is in this ‘race’ ?
A2A Rwy seems to be proposing a seemingly conventional style of construction; while the G7G Rwy is proposing some what of a ‘laundry list’ of advantages in their proposal:
A purpose-built, double-track railway utilizing the latest technologies focusing on safety and environmental concerns
Transportation of all commodities (crude oil, refined petroleum products, forestry, agriculture, minerals, potash, manufactured goods, etc.) to and from Pacific tidewater
Involvement of CN in either of the two plans would seem to be a ‘given’?
The lines that are currently laid down in that area, at the very least, would seem to ‘have’ to be crossed at some point [Former Deese Lake <Line/ROW>; The Hay River line, and of course, the Fort McMurray line]
Both competing plans seem to focus, currently, on the oil and gas potentials of the area. Also the Province of Alberta is apparently actively engaged in promting explorations for a number of minerals thought to be in that area?
some of the listed minerals are :gold,silver, base metals,diamonds,lithium,uranium,potash, rare earth elements,vanadium.
There really isn’t much to this website. A couple of people referred to the G7G railway on a parallel thread so I did a search. This is all I could find.
They have a “home page” which tells you pretty much nothing. There is a field to click on for additional informtion and, having done so, I was directed to an online contact form. That’s all there was.
Did you not bother to read the Van Horne Institute paper on the Alberta-Alaska Railway (Feb 24 2016) or the extremely interesting legal proceedings – that may or may not have something to do with the zeal to prosecute the alleged frauds at A2A? There was considerable collateral on G7G, admittedly a great deal of it involving First Nations permissions, ownership, and prospective operation, as late as about 2018. Someone might see if there are pages on the Wayback Machine with the older material.
If what is stated in the complaint is true, the principals and financiers who were setting up to finance development of G7G rather suddenly decided not to finance development any further but generated their own competing line… using the work product G7G had developed. How true this actually is will be up to the courts… but whenever I see one of those Canadian ‘number companies’ involved with something of this prospective magnitude, I get very worried indeed.