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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  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    We’ve (excluding the US,) been at peace for some time, and cables are getting cut left and right. Not even all recently, even 15 years back there were some suspicious ones out by Asia, forget the details, but Fox was up in arms about it.

    Edit: What should be done, is to mass produce some gear to hook onto the cables or near them, to spy out sabotage attempts and give early warnings. Then scramble the warplanes.

    Or even an electrical line, with flashpoints where if a diver or submarine drone gets near, they can send electricity through the water to incapacitate the threat.