According
to Bloomberg, Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport
and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion
project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia. A
6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) transport corridor from Siberia into the U.S. will
feed into the tunnel, which at 64 miles will be more than twice as long as the
underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France, according
to the plan. The tunnel would run in three sections to link the two islands in
the Bering Strait between Russia and the U.S. The project, which Russia is
coordinating with the U.S. and Canada, would take 10 to 15 years to complete.
