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Shelley Hughes
6:39 - 7:08
“So I did work on the eastern border, and what that was was a Senate resolution to support the presidential permit for a border crossing for a rail to Canada all the way to the Lower 48 that would come and connect with our rail system.”
- Speaker
- Shelley Hughes
- Timestamp
- 6:39 – 7:08
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- August 6, 2026
From the transcript
So I did work on the eastern border, and what that was was a Senate resolution to support the presidential permit for a border crossing for a rail to Canada all the way to the Lower 48 that would come and connect with our rail system. And I worked with former Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell on that, and that project is called the A2A Project. Alaska to Alberta. I think it's Alaska to Alberta. It might be Alberta to Alaska.
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