Prairie Link would run through Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary.
The premier has Alberta government preparing for the population to double to 10 million by 2050, way above government projections. And, perhaps, a Calgary-Edmonton high-speed train to move all those people.The $9-billion proposed high-speed link between Calgary and Edmonton could get new life under Alberta's latest projections of rapid population growth.
It's not clear where this growth estimate came from, because the premier's office didn't respond to a query Monday.It could be that somebody just added 184,400 to Alberta's population every year through 2050. It's certainly not the government's own forecasts, whichNor is it clear how it's posited that the province will surpass British Columbia, a province that is currently 17 per cent more populous, or Québec and its 8.
"And yes, we need to start planning for the inevitable need for high-speed rail through the Calgary-Red Deer-Edmonton corridor when six to seven million Albertans eventually call that corridor their home," the speech stated, its "and yes" perhaps showing awareness of the endless cycle of feasibility studies that keep putting off a transport idea that not even the Québec-Ontario corridor has achieved yet.
The year 2050, of course, has become an auspicious target year for Canada and Alberta — when both governments are proposing we can reach net-zero to help keep climate change in check. But with no private businesses vying to propose new plants right now, the premier indicated on Monday a willingness to bring government support to the generation market: "Whatever it takes to get natural gas plants built," she said, without offering specifics.
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