Jiamusi, located intheeast of Heilongjiang Province, isthe mosteasterncity in China, known as the gateway in northeast AsiatoRussia and theeast pole of China.
The extension would not interfere with the other major river-crossing project that has been championed since the demise of the ARC project: Amtrak's Gateway project, which would add new tunnels to connect thenortheast corridor lines in New Jersey to Penn Station in Manhattan.
The Northern Gateway project actually involves the construction of two pipelines between Bruderheim, Alberta (about 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton) to Kitimat, B.