Make Port of Churchill, Manitoba viable

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If the NW passage is relatively open, some cities on Earth are flooded, some areas are uninhabitably hot... And as it has been pointed out, swampy ground isn't really useful for major economic activity, either.

Not at 1-1.5 degrees C. There is no major sea level rise. There is minimal, if any, uninhabitably hot areas. Now, yes, 1-1.5 degrees C is an unrealistically low amount of warming compared to what will probably be happening, but it's an amount we'd want to keep the climate at.

One effect is an increase in wheat yields in places like Canada, which can be exported through the now more open port of Churchill.
 
If the NW passage is relatively open, some cities on Earth are flooded, some areas are uninhabitably hot... And as it has been pointed out, swampy ground isn't really useful for major economic activity, either.
But Canada, with its fresh water, petroleum, minerals, agricultural output and small population for the most part wins. This is an uncomfortable fact that Canadian climate change promoters choose to ignore, that Canada will have a net benefit.
 
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But Canada, with its fresh water, petroleum, minerals, agricultural output and small population for the most part wins. This is an uncomfortable fact that Canadian climate change promoters choose to ignore, that Canada will have a net benefit.

What?! What? Nah, it's all junk folks. Nothing to see here, nothing but muskeg and polar bears. I hear Australia is nice this time of year.
 

What are you doing reading the CBC. That's Canadian media, Canadians are the only people who read that. What are you playing at "Admiral Beez" IF that is your real name! TERRY MACKENZIE FROM SELKIRK, MANITOBA!

Seriously though, even the best kept secrets get out, that's why I found my patch.

A big turn for it, would not have privatized the railroads, just the companies and rolling stock. That way there is a serviced line, and incentive to either have a private, or province owned rail company connection. This would have a big impact on rail usage nationally. But, as for the Churchill issue it maintains it's business relevance, and Canada has a northern port to send goods to it's northern communities, instead of Montreal.
 
Only more development of the Canadian North could make Churchill truly viable. But if global warming keeps up, it would be a waste not to keep the port usable. I guess in addition, you could have more cruise lines in the Canadian north, going around Labrador and through the Hudson Bay, and docking at Churchill, to see polar bears.
If the NW passage is relatively open, some cities on Earth are flooded, some areas are uninhabitably hot... And as it has been pointed out, swampy ground isn't really useful for major economic activity, either.

Yellowknife, NWT and Rankin Inlet, Nunavut could be linked by rail to Churchill but still only more development of the Canadian North could make Churchill truly viable in the long run economically.

Maybe if this got underway, the construction alone may give the port some work, but Churchill is poorly placed as a rail head vs. the Cochrane to Moosonee run.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recycling_and_Northern_Development_Canal
So at this moment without the GRAND project, the Cochrane and Moosonee run could be a better choice as port, not to mention the James Bay freezes last and defrosted first each winter to spring.
 
At Canso, Nova Scotia, a commercial spaceport is going to be constructed according to plan. If that spaceport serves the East Coast of Canada. A refurbished Churchill Rocket Research Range servesall the territories and the Canadian Prairies and as a result, some port and rail transportation facilities need to be refurbished.
 
I live 30 mins from where they are building it. There's not a lot of buzz about it any more. Contracts have been filed for a year now, a fair amount of automation from what I've heard through the grapevine. Although if what we are seeing from SpaceX is any indication, the more automated the more viable. Maybe, perhaps, possibly we could start building rockets again in this country.
 
Try telling the Dutch that swamps are useless!

To make Chrucuill viable, never complete the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
 
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