Trump said he’d have to think about a Kremlin proposal for Elon Musk to build an undersea rail tunnel between Russia and Alaska in the Bering Straits.
The topic was brought up in the White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Thursday.
Kirill Dmitriev, an investment envoy for Putin and head of Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund, envisions a construction project costing $8 billion, funded by Moscow and “international partners,” to be constructed by Elon Musk’s tunneling business, the Boring Company.
Dmitriev, who has a relationship with Trump’s envoy to Russia Steve Witkoff, said it would be “a 70-mile link symbolizing unity,” where U.S. energy companies could join Russian projects in the Arctic to unlock joint exploration of natural resources.
The construction of such a project would be interesting.
Musk’s Boring Company would be working through below-freezing temperatures in a region without existing infrastructure and with deep and frequent earthquakes with no track record of working in such conditions.
The Boring Company was recently cited for violations during a project in Nevada, including digging without approval, releasing untreated water onto city streets and spilling waste from trucks.
The company is currently working on a 10-mile tunnel project from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, to its airport, dubbed the Music City Loop. Residents protested, in part, due to the lack of planning before The Boring Company project was authorized in the flood-prone city.