Why wont you use the railway to Baie-Comeau? (QcRail project)
We rejected this possibility for the following reasons: The government decree has already determined what transport Arianne must use. The projected railway is more than 100 km from the mine, so we still must use trucks and make a transfer, which causes huge logistical problems that led us to abandon the option to use the railway in Saguenay. There is no operator linked to the project. We, therefore, assume that we would have to acquire our own locomotive, which requires several years of delivery time. No matter the port, Arianne Phosphate has to build a dock, a boat loader, silos, access, etc. We save only on blasting, which is far from covering the price of a train (we have already studied the purchase of a train, we have these data). In the project description, it appears that the developer relies on 100% subsidies to finance the railway. The promoter never contacted us.