Russia and the Arctic, More on
Fri, 2008-09-12 22:14
#1
Sven
Russia and the Arctic, More on
Fri, 2008-09-12 22:14
#2
Sven
The [url=http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSLC30090620080912?feed... comments from Russia[/url] regarding Arctic resources.
"The Arctic must become Russia's main strategic resource base," Russian news agencies quoted [Security Council Secretary Nikolai] Patrushev as saying.
Fri, 2008-09-12 22:55
#3
remind
Well Sven, it is up for claiming right now and we have our own conmtingent going there to prove what shelf it is on.
Are you trying to agitate for war over resources, Sven? If so please don't.
Anyhow here is a map of the region that is useful[img]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42433000/gif/_42433630_arctic_ice_...
From your linked article, that you just slapped up with no commentary.
quote:
Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States and Denmark -- which governs Greenland -- all have a shoreline within the Arctic Circle, and have a 200-mile (320-km) economic zone around the north of their coastlines.Russian officials say they are entitled to a bigger share. They base the claim on the contention that the Lomonosov ridge, a vast underwater mountain range that runs underneath the Arctic, is an extension of the Siberian continental shelf.
Under the United Nations Law of the Sea treaty, any state with an Arctic coastline that wishes to stake a claim to a greater share of the Arctic must lodge its submission with the U.N.'s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
And frankly, from all of the neo-con governments pushing global warming further and faster, it makes one wonder if they are doing it so the ice melts.
Greed breeds unhappiness for all.
Fri, 2008-09-12 22:58
#4
Sven
quote:
Originally posted by remind:
[b]Are you trying to agitate for war over resources, Sven?[/b]
No. But, it looks like Russia is being very aggressive in its claims.
Fri, 2008-09-12 23:20
#5
remind
Not from the linked article you give, and not any more so than the USA, who are trying to say they have the right to claim to the Bering Sea oil. Double standards again Sven?
[url=http://agonist.org/taxonomy_menu/2/1/163?from=50
quote:
Government]http://agonist.org/taxonomy_menu/2/1/163?from=50[QUOTE]Government[/url] seeks comment on possible Bering Sea drillingShell spent nearly $1 million in 2005 to acquire leases on state territory nearby on the Alaska Peninsula. [b]There are no plans to develop those leases without outer continental shelf[/b] activity as an anchor, said Gregg Nady, Shell's Alaska exploration team leader, said at a conference last month.
[url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0837262020080408?page... is the worst manifestation of the Cheney energy policy. It would leave dead whales and oiled beaches and ruined fishing communities in its wake," Brendan Cummings, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said Tuesday.[/url]