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Old 04-24-2007, 04:16 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Thunderball View Post
One word... why?

The bering strait is 600 miles away from anything remotely major, that being Anchorage. On the other side, Magadan and Yakutsk are over a thousand miles away, and both are about the same size as Regina.

The only possible use would be tourism and shipping. But with shipping, is it really any quicker or more efficient than an ocean liner?

Sounds like an international white elephant to me.
Actually should Siberia and other Eastern Russian areas expand development of natural resources this will be a very viable shipping route with oil pipelines, trainlines and a highway. Many Natural resources such as Timber, Oil and Gas, Mining metals, etc are in relatively unexplored Eastern Russia. There isn't an economic case for this now, but in 30 years time there just might since North America is a net consumer of resources as opposed to a producer. We will have depleted much of our domestic supplies of these resources by then. It would be faster when the resource comes directly from Eastern Russia.
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