Canadian Town, Isolated After Losing Rail Link, ‘Feels Held Hostage’
Since the train tracks were washed out, the price of hauling his high-performance kibble here from a supplier in New
Brunswick has doubled — from 52 Canadian dollars a bag, which lasts at most two days, to 111 Canadian dollars.
"Relying on that train — now that it’s not running — what am I going to do?" Churchill’s current problems can be traced to a three-day blizzard
that pummeled the area in March, burying houses and prompting the town of 900 people to announce a state of emergency.
David Barber said that It’s an example of how ill-prepared we are to address climate change and these extreme events,
It arrived on May 23, the morning when floods washed out the track connecting this frontier
town in northern Manitoba on the edge of Hudson Bay — and it hasn’t moved since.
" Ron Mitchell, a railway engineer hired by the company to assess the damage, said at a media briefing in July.
that To fix things in this era of climate change, well, it’s fixed but you don’t count on it being the fix forever,
The effects of climate change were previously a boon for Churchill: Its status as one of few places near the Arctic Circle accessible by train,
and its location at the juncture between boreal forest and Arctic tundra, had established the town as a nexus for climate change research.