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A year ago, former Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and other state leaders were gushing with enthusiasm over the Alaska to Alberta Railway’s plan to build a 1,600-mile railroad from northern Alberta to the eastern Interior of Alaska to transport raw materials like minerals or bitumen for export.
A2A Vice Chair Mead Treadwell explains the project route in an April 2019 talk with the World Trade Center Anchorage.
Credit Fyodor Soloview/InterBering.com
“We’re hoping to begin formal permitting with the Environmental Impact Statement process sometime either late this year or early next,” Treadwell said in an interview last September.