Canadian engineers aim to push forward long-gestating plans for a new coast-to-coast infrastructure right-of-way that would open up Canada’s far-north territories, boosting access to resources in a challenged economy. They hope to convince government officials attending the Association of Consulting Engineering Cos.- Canada’s annual conference this month in Ottawa to expedite the multibillion-dollar “northern corridor” that has already has been touted in Canada’s parliament.
The infrastructure project would link the country’s far north with the rest of the country via a 4,349-mile-long, three-mile-wide corridor that could be used for roads, rail tracks pipelines and utility lines. The engineering group hopes to make the case for the ambitious project to Minister of Natural Resources James Carr and other government attendees.