The Trans-Texas Corridor and Water

Multi-modal corridors and water pipelines

The Trans Texas Corridor has been called “the largest engineering project ever proposed” for George Bush’s home
state. At its widest, the “multi-modal” transit corridor will be four football fields wide and include lanes for cars, trains
and trucks headed from the Mexican coast through Texas and into America’s heartland. But the track doesn’t end
there. Through public-private consortia like the North American Super Corridor Coalition, which counts the province
of Manitoba as a proud participant, plans are underway to extend this Texas pet-project right up past the Canadian
border to an expanded port in Churchill.
This proposed mega-highway has been dubbed the “NAFTA Superhighway” because it is designed to speed up the
flow of goods between the three signatory countries. But “multimodal” doesn’t just mean train, truck and car lanes. It
also means pipelines.
“Texas proposes to build a new type of transportation system, a network of wide corridors designed to move people
and goods faster and more safely than ever before,” says a Trans Texas Corridor Document from 2002. “Beyond that,
the corridor will feature a wide utility zone for the transmission of oil, natural gas, electricity, data and a substance
critical to the future of the state – water.”
Opponents of the corridor plan in Texas worry the pipelines will be used to carry Texan water south to Mexico in return
for oil. But considering the looming crisis in Texas, and the fact that bulk water exports are now being discussed as
part of the North American Future 2025 Project for continental integration, it is possible that the pipelines will be used
to carry Canadian water. “A lot of people don’t need it, but when you head south and west, we need it,” said George
W. Bush, six months into his term, at a joint press conference with former prime minister Jean Chrétien. “Some have
suggested abandoned pipelines that used to carry energy. That’s a possibility. I would be open to any discussion.

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