A& - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Front front

Railway visionary eyes
dream route to Russia

Broadbent left BC Rail
in 1993, bought a railway
supply company, made big
money, and then sold off
his interests so he could
pursue the arctic railway.

His New Westminster-
based company only has
10 employees tow, but
Broadbent says he will be-
gin construction in four
years — he’s sure of it.

“Yes, it’s going to
happen,” he says. For .
starters, the Alaskans

(politicians as well as rail-
road barons) are really
pushing for him to meet
them at the Yukon border,
he explains. For another,
the people of the north are
living on welfare, and
need industry to get them
back on their feet.

“They're sitting on
probably some of the rich-
est resources on earth and
yet everybody's living on
welfare.”

The first phase of his
arctic rail systern will take
a decade, Broadbent says,
It will include lines from
Dease Lake to White-
horse, and from Fort Nel-
son to Dawson Creek, with
three cross-connectors
(one to Hazelton) and, of
course, a line from White-
horse west to the Alaska
border, connecting with a
line somewhere in the.
Beaver Creek area,

Today BC Rail operates
an industrial rail service
on about 440 kilometres of
its Takla subdivision,
reaching to a remote rail-
head called Minaret atthe
headwaters of the Skeena
River. The line hauls out
timber for contractors and
concentrate from the Kem-
ess copper-gold mine.

While BC Rail is aware
of the trans-Siberian con-
nection scheme, it has no
plans to complete the ex-.
tension. lo ‘Dease. Lake: be-.
cause in-all likelihood the...
revenue it would produce
couldn’t justify the huge
investment, said BC: Rail
spokesman Allan Dever.

“We don’t have an. es-
timate of what it. would
cost, but it wouldn't be
cheap,” he said. “We’re a
long way from Dease

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THE RAILWAY TRACKS that now stop short of |

Dease Lake could run all the way to Siberia if a Ca-
nadian financier and railroad visionary has his way.

Lake.”

As for the cost of a line
from Dease Lake to Alas-
ka, Broadbent says it
would vary depending on

mental data along the pro-
posed routes, all of which
have already been sur-

veyed to some extent,

In the long term, he’s
planning a three-phase
project that will take 20 to

" 30 years, a network of rail- ;
roads across the’ western

and eastern arctic with
communities established
every 150 or sa miles
along the track.

So that brings us back
to the Jess humble idea of
the Bering Strait Tunnel
Project, which Broadbent
says could likely happen

. but only after the Cana-

dian Arctic Railway and

an even more ambitious

railroad across Alaska.
“We've got a lot of oth-

er things to do before we

can focus on the tunnel,”
he said.
Earlier this year he

talked with the chamber of

commerce in the Alaskan
port town of Fairbanks.

“We're pressing them
ta get their side of it
done,” he said.

And at the same time,
an Alaskan senator was
expected this fall to have
meetings with the Cana-
dian business community
in Victoria and Whitehorse
to discuss different
‘scenarios for the railroad.

And David Cohoe says
he can raise the $50 bil-
lion for the tunnel, thanks
in part to his family’s
common holding company.

“This railway project
will have the same effect
at the end of the century
that the Panama Canal
had at the beginning of the
century,” Cohoe, said.

“economics,” anywhere
from $400 million to $1.5
billion, for a top-of-the-line
railroad. Funding will
come entirely from the pri-
vate sector, from a variety
of sources including risk
investors and oil compa-
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. .In. the. short. term, his infest
main concerns are settling
environmental and aborigi-
nal issues. For the latter,

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