CN rail part of isthmus mitigation funding talks: N.B. premier [Video]

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says CN Rail has joined the discussion on who should pay to protect the Chignecto Isthmus from climate change.

Holt said the topic of isthmus mitigation funding was addressed during a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Fredericton on Tuesday.

“I have big concerns about the cost of that project,” said Holt, to reporters. “It’s critical to New Brunswick obviously and a significant amount of the work and the infrastructure is all on the New Brunswick side, and so there were some interesting points made about the role that CN might play in those conversations. So we’re going to have quite a conversation there about who’s paying for what.”

Any mitigation work along the 24 kilometre strip of land connecting New Brunswick with Nova Scotia could take a decade or longer to complete and cost as much as $700-million.

In addition to a CN Rail line, the area also includes the Trans-Canada Highway – both of which are …