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Harper orders new draft of Arctic seabed claim to include North Pole
The Globe and Mail ^ | Dec. 04 2013 | Steven Chase

Posted on 12/05/2013 10:21:54 PM PST by JerseyanExile

Stephen Harper has ordered government bureaucrats back to the drawing board to craft a more expansive international claim for seabed riches in the Arctic after the proposed submission they showed him failed to include the geographic North Pole, The Globe and Mail has learned.

The Arctic is believed to contain as much as one-quarter of the world’s undiscovered energy resources, and countries are tabling scientific evidence with a United Nations commission to win rights to polar sea-floor assets. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a country can secure control of ocean floor beyond the internationally recognized 200 nautical mile limit if it can demonstrate the seabed is an extension of its continental shelf.

Senior government officials say Canada will meet its Dec. 6 filing deadline for making an application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, but it will be a preliminary submission that outlines a portion of the Canadian claim and preserves this country’s right to make further submissions later.

Canada will follow up with a broader claim that includes the geographic North Pole after the necessary work has been completed, sources say.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: arcticsea; canada; energy; northpole; russia; underseamining

1 posted on 12/05/2013 10:21:55 PM PST by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile
They need to address ocean surface and water-column grabs like China's first.

This is turning into a free-for-all.

2 posted on 12/05/2013 10:32:36 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: JerseyanExile
While Harper is faffing about in the arctic, Oslama orders troops in to kidnap Lake Louis.
3 posted on 12/05/2013 10:37:16 PM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: deadrock

Louise.....


4 posted on 12/05/2013 10:38:17 PM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: JerseyanExile
Perhaps we should be buying the Principe de Asturias instead of the Angolans! Rename it the HMCS Bonaventure . Add in a couple of heavy icebreakers and new DDGs and FFHs; and fix the screen doors on the SSKs, and then there will be some teeth to our claim to the North Pole.


5 posted on 12/05/2013 11:00:15 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: JerseyanExile

They should probably include the moon and Mars, too.


6 posted on 12/05/2013 11:37:03 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: JerseyanExile

Santa can continue to live there rent-free. Same deal for his workshop & reindeer barn.


7 posted on 12/05/2013 11:38:51 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks JerseyanExile. Tjos will drive Putin’s buttboys nuts.


8 posted on 12/06/2013 3:09:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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