- 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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YES! I want it. A way to get Canada closer to Europe… in preparation for them to join Schengen and the EEA
The syrup must flow.
Sorry, this is a data pipeline. Unless…
The new “oil”, filling sweet loving Euros with energy.
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
The data cable will be inside the syrup cable. Then when the syrup stops flowing we know the data cable has been compromised.
Sort of like the condom/talabasco/condom model of contraception.
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.
The great trans-Atlantic maple pipeline!
You wouldn’t download a plate of maple syrup
Slurp slurp The syrup our pancakes deserve.
I would totally use my Irish passport to get into Canada if they joined Shengen.