Bulk Infrastructure's proposed Leif Erikson cable would link Norway to Montreal via Canada, bypassing U.S. territory, but financing and customers remain unconfirmed.

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  • Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
  • Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
  • Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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      • kaykay@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        23 hours ago

        I can only see upsides with also adding some syrup pipelines next to the fiber cable.
        Crude oil is just awful on pancakes for example, why do people even want to import all that yuck? SMH

      • teslekova@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Canada does have the other kind too. Although a better use would be to take solar power through Europe from Northern Africa.

        Just need superconducting power cables.