Canadian Town, Isolated After Losing Rail Link, ‘Feels Held Hostage’<br />Since the train tracks were washed out, the price of hauling his high-performance kibble here from a supplier in New<br />Brunswick has doubled — from 52 Canadian dollars a bag, which lasts at most two days, to 111 Canadian dollars.<br />"Relying on that train — now that it’s not running — what am I going to do?" Churchill’s current problems can be traced to a three-day blizzard<br />that pummeled the area in March, burying houses and prompting the town of 900 people to announce a state of emergency.<br />David Barber said that It’s an example of how ill-prepared we are to address climate change and these extreme events,<br />It arrived on May 23, the morning when floods washed out the track connecting this frontier<br />town in northern Manitoba on the edge of Hudson Bay — and it hasn’t moved since.<br />" Ron Mitchell, a railway engineer hired by the company to assess the damage, said at a media briefing in July.<br />that To fix things in this era of climate change, well, it’s fixed but you don’t count on it being the fix forever,<br />The effects of climate change were previously a boon for Churchill: Its status as one of few places near the Arctic Circle accessible by train,<br />and its location at the juncture between boreal forest and Arctic tundra, had established the town as a nexus for climate change research.
