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Norwegian Company Pitches 2,800-Mile Undersea Cable Linking Canada and Europe to Bypass the US (www.gadgetreview.com)

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Bulk Infrastructure proposes a 6,500-kilometer Norway-to-Montreal cable bypassing U.S. territory entirely.
Costs exceed $620 million, with financing, customers, and route surveys still unresolved.
Routing around U.S. territory does not guarantee independence from American networks downstream.

Norwegian infrastructure company Bulk Infrastructure is proposing a direct fiber cable from Norway to Canada, routed around the United States entirely. The project, named Leif Erikson, remains a proposal, not a construction announcement.

Canada currently has relatively few direct international cable options that avoid U.S. routing, a structural gap the project is designed to address. That context, combined with growing government interest in infrastructure resilience, gives the proposal its strategic weight.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 day ago

Also important that it bypasses Britain (from were there are cables directly to Canada) since the Brits do digital surveillance on everything that goes through cables that land in Britain and give that data to the Americans, as shown in the Snowden Revelations.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago

since the Brits do digital surveillance on everything that goes through cables that land in Britain and give that data to the Americans

Sorry to break it to you... but ECHELON is a surveillance program operated by the signatories of the UKUSA Security Agreement... aka the Five Eyes... Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the United States. Canada is in that list spying for the group right alongside everyone else. Two of the intercept stations are located in Canada... CFS Leitrim (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and CFB Gander (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada).

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

True.

It's just that if that data doesn't go via a different 5-eyes member nation then Canada can actually chose whether they want data going between Canada and Europe to be under surveillance and a copy getting sent to the US or not, whilst if it does they have no such choice.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes that's important. I would also be happy to support more connectivity via Greenland and Iceland.

[-] FE80@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

MACsec your WAN links.

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