Through its economic development arm, NCRR Invests, North Carolina Railroad Company reported that it is investing approximately $500,000 to assist with the design and construction of on-site rail infrastructure and a rail spur for CSX, allowing for the annual shipment of more than 3,400 railcars.
https://www.railwayage.com/freight/class-i/rail-served-ev-battery-plant-coming-to-north-carolina/
1 When will Baie Comeau feasibility study begin?
2 What does environmental require? Are baseline environmental studies required?
Epsilon chose Wilmington NC for their plant. From NC newspaper.
The Mid-Atlantic Rail Industrial Park site was strategically picked as a site for its proximity to the Wilmington Port, automotive suppliers, Southeastern vehicle manufacturing facilities and the local community college, according to EAM.
3 For Hugues what is Baie Comeau close to other then ELK.
Radio Canada article, 5 March 2024
“QcRail applies the brakes
It was to be the final section of a northern rail corridor to connect western and central Canada to the European market. Such a railway would have compensated for the closure of the St. Lawrence Seaway during the winter.
A first phase of the feasibility study, for which Quebec and Ottawa invested $15 million , was submitted last summer. However, there are too many uncertainties for the QcRail railway company to launch the second part of the study.
We know that the Quebec government is in the process of establishing its strategy for woodland caribou. The Innu community of Pessamit has made a request for a protected area in the territory that would be crossed by QcRail. These are elements which make it risky to embark on a phase 2 currently, explains the president of the QcRail railway company, Marcel Furlong.
He also mentions engineering difficulties in spanning the Pribonka and Bersimis rivers. Public consultations were also to be carried out in Lac-Saint-Jean, Baie-Comeau and within the Innu communities of Mashteuiatsh, Pessamit and Essipit.