(Source: Globe and Mail, January 23, 2017)
TORONTO — It took 9.7 million cubic metres of earth and 50,000 railway ties to build the 30-kilometre railway through the Saskatchewan Prairie to a new K+S Potash Canada Inc. mine near Moose Jaw. When the line opened last spring, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. called it the “most significant engineering project” it had undertaken since the 1980s. But the collapse of a four-kilometre embankment built to cross the Qu’Appelle River during construction in late 2015 has spurred two $41-million lawsuits.
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