Compliance Energy Corp CPYCF

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Petition on Raven

[chrisale]

It is included in the E&N evaluation done by the BC Government in 2010.

https://www.th.gov.bc.ca/publications/reports_and_studies/Evaluation_ENRailway/publications.htm

Table 3.1 of the "Development Strategies" document lists the cost of 'corridor improvements' to the Port Alberni line to be $25.6 million. Throw in possible bridge repairs that need to be done and a spur to the Raven site, you'd be looking at $30-$40 million.

Note those are whole-costs. They do not take into account any cost sharing that might occur with industry (Raven), the rail operator, or other sources of funding which would be very likely to occur because of how rail is generally built.

The 2012 Horne Lake Connector study listed below pegs the cost for the new highway at $65 Million. The $100 Million figure is a number provided by proponents to the media and apparently includes both the cost of the highway plus the cost of a ring road ($??). This was before the Ministry released the Connector report detailing the $65 million cost of that section of their plans... whether that figure jives with what the proponents had anticipated has never been explained but I suspect it is significantly higher than what they thought and so $100 million is probably a low-ball estimate at this point. Unlike a rail proposal, the highway proposal would be fully taxpayer funded.

https://www.vifreightbyrail.ca/history-of-new-highways-on-central-vancouver-island/