Posted on 09/17/2008 6:29:47 AM PDT by webschooner
President Dmitry Medvedev said that Russia should unilaterally claim part of the Arctic, stepping up the race for the disputed energy-rich region.
"We must finalise and adopt a federal law on the southern border of Russia's Arctic zone," Mr Medvedev told a meeting of the Security Council, in remarks carried by Interfax news agency.
"This is our responsibility, and simply our direct duty, to our descendents," he said. "We must surely, and for the long-term future, secure Russia's interests in the Arctic."
Global warming has stepped up the fight for the disputed Arctic, believed to be laden with vast reserves of oil and gas. Russia has pitted itself against Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States to fight for a greater part of the region, arguing that most of it is Russian territory since an underwater ridge links Siberia to the North Pole's seabed.
Last August, a Russian mini-submarine carrying politicians and scientists plunged to the depths of the Arctic and claimed to plant a Russian flag to mark Moscow's stake in the territory.
Footage of the alleged planting was widely broadcast on Russian television but later turned out to be images taken from the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic.
Under international law, each of the five countries that lay claim to the Arctic own a 320-kilometre zone that extends north from their shores. That arrangement is up for UN review in May next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Only marine life, which is rich and abundant today. The Artic Circle has no land mass.
Russian army trains for Arctic resource war
Russia plans Arctic military build-up
Canada's response is to build two new military bases in the area.
“Footage of the alleged planting was widely broadcast on Russian television but later turned out to be images taken from the Hollywood blockbuster Titanic.”
LOL, sounds like they learned from the Iranians.
There’s plenty of coal being mined in Alaska however.
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Canada’s response is to build two new military bases in the area.
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Good for them.
Dinosaurs on Alaskas North Slope
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/ak/aktest/culture_res/culture_pdfs.Par.48740.File.dat/alaska_dinosaurs.pdf
How Was Oil Formed?
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/non-renewable/oil.html#Howformed
Keep in mind that the sedimentary rock most oil is found is from a time period older than the current location of our continents.
‘LOL, sounds like they learned from the Iranians.”
No, CBS.
Yeah sure — delivered by? No way that our spineless government will do anything about the situation.
We have already been invaded by people who have no intention of assimilating in our society but who are working hard in creating their own. And yet, we keep inviting them in.
The unity and integrity of our nation has been compromised and is of least concern to Washington.
Bush is asleep at the switch.
Why don’t we protest this?
Pennsylvanian - 290 to 323 million years ago
During the Pennsylvanian time period, Oklahoma continued to be located south of the equator but was drifting slowly north.
The sea level rose and fell several times during the Pennsylvanian. Time after time, large areas of Oklahoma were flooded by a shallow sea and then became dry land as sea level fell. Also, during this time, the Arbuckle Mountains, Wichita Mountains, Ouachita Mountains and Ozark Mountains formed.
Brachiopods, crinoids and corals were the most abundant invertebrate animals that lived in this sea. Clams and snails can also be found in some rocks but trilobites are rare. Fossils of land plants are common in coal deposits of the Pennsylvanian.
You can find fossils of Pennsylvanian age in limestone, shales and sandstones of the Arbuckle Mountains and in most of eastern Oklahoma.
What do you think, Barack? What should we do?
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Sea Life.....
An odd choice of words considering their demographic implosion.
Russia owns huge chunks of Siberia that are devoid of Russians. Chinese are slowly creeping in and settling down there. Ought to make for a dandy war one of these days.
Careful- that is an awfully inconvenient question for those who support an "Old earth/evolutionary concept"...
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