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Russia accused of annexing the Arctic for oil reserves by Canada
telegraph ^
| 5/18
| telegraph
Posted on 05/17/2008 8:17:46 PM PDT by Flavius
e battle for "ownership" of the polar oil reserves has accelerated with the disclosure that Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic.
It has reinforced fears that Moscow intends to annex "unlawfully" a vast portion of the ice-covered Arctic, beneath which scientists believe up to 10 billion tons of gas and oil could be buried. Russian ambition for control of the Arctic has provoked Canada to double to $40 million (£20.5 million) funding for work to map the Arctic seabed in support its claim over the territory.
The Russian ice breakers patrol huge areas of the frozen ocean for months on end, cutting through ice up to 8ft thick. There are thought to be eight in the region, dwarfing the British and American fleets, neither of which includes nuclear-powered ships.
Canada also plans to open an army training centre for cold-weather fighting at Resolute Bay and a deep-water port on the northern tip of Baffin Island, both of which are close to the disputed region. The country's defence ministry intends to build a special fleet of patrol boats to guard the North West Passage.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arctic; artic; canada; energy; oil; russia
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posted on
05/17/2008 8:17:46 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
Let’s give Alaska back to them so they can drill in ANWAR...
2
posted on
05/17/2008 8:20:51 PM PDT
by
tubebender
( Bo took another tag line and not one of you offered to help...)
To: Flavius
We got polar bears to protect, after all...
3
posted on
05/17/2008 8:21:51 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
To: Flavius
but but but... what about the cuddly, threatened POLAR BEARS?!
4
posted on
05/17/2008 8:22:05 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: Flavius
Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic.Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...Paging Greenpeace...
5
posted on
05/17/2008 8:23:38 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: Flavius
Russia has sent a fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers into the Arctic.
silly russians don't they know there isn't any ice up there anymore?
6
posted on
05/17/2008 8:25:50 PM PDT
by
jjw
To: Flavius
7
posted on
05/17/2008 8:39:19 PM PDT
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Flavius
Isn't it amazing how the U.S. is turning into a weenie third world country while other countries are taking on challenges that will make them a great economic power house of a country like we use to be.
8
posted on
05/17/2008 8:50:48 PM PDT
by
kempo
(c)
To: Flavius; Kathy in Alaska; monkapotamus; All
What about Looter guy pals the Polar bear
9
posted on
05/17/2008 8:50:49 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Flavius
To: tubebender
That’s the up side to all of this.
Pathetic isn’t it?
11
posted on
05/17/2008 9:45:52 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Flavius
This will be a footnote in history of the Ruso-Canadian war of 2012-2015.
12
posted on
05/17/2008 9:47:11 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
To: Perdogg
So it’ll last 3 years? Who will win?
13
posted on
05/17/2008 9:47:59 PM PDT
by
lainie
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
To: tubebender
Let’s give Alaska back to them so they can drill in ANWAR...Great bumper sticker.
14
posted on
05/17/2008 9:55:01 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: Flavius; tubebender
To: tubebender; Congressman Billybob
Let’s give Alaska back to them so they can drill in ANWAR...I wonder what Federal legislators would think of this idea.
16
posted on
05/17/2008 9:58:55 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: SevenofNine
What about Looter guy pals the Polar bear
17
posted on
05/17/2008 10:00:32 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: Flavius
This is the silliest thing yet. Pooty is sending his icebreakers willy-nilly over the deep, deep arctic basin. If there is oil down there we’re a long way from being able to access it.
We’re talking Marx Brothers here, friends.
18
posted on
05/17/2008 10:10:45 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sinanju
I don’t know about that Mr. P doesn’t care how many seals, fish, or highly specalized undersea life he makes extinct or who he pisses off. That tends to help oil extraction anywhere on earth signifcantly.
To: Flavius
Russia obviously gets it when it comes to oil exploration and extraction.
20
posted on
05/18/2008 4:51:45 AM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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