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CBC: The journey toward an expanded Port of Churchill has only just begun

November 9, 2025 — 

Dr. Barry Prentice, Professor and Director of the University of Manitoba Transport Institute (UMTI), said the only location near Churchill that is less exposed is Button Bay, west of the Churchill River. That location has the added advantage of sitting west of the estuary where thousands of belugas congregate during the summer. “You would have to have a bridge, but it’s close enough to the town of Churchill and still yet far enough away that it wouldn’t interfere with the belugas and so on,” Dr. Prentice said.

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