The Mathias Colomb Cree Nation announced that it has made an offer to purchase the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay rail line from OmniTrax Canada.
The Mathias Colomb Cree Nation also invited other northern First Nations to join a consortium that would own both enterprises.
The northern rail line, which crosses hundreds of kilometres of bog and permafrost, has been plagued by derailments that have intermittently forced the suspension of both freight and passenger services. OmniTrax has previously indicated the rail service, the only land link to Churchill and three other communities from the south, could be discontinued if no new buyer were found.
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