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US rushes icebreaker to counter Ruskie threat to North Pole
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by Actual News Geezer | August 10, 2007 at 01:37 pm
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News that the US government is rushing a Coast Guard icebreaker to the north to coutner Russia's claim to the North Pole will surely annoy Canadians.
The Healy icebreaker of the U.S. Coast Guard Service leaves Seattle Monday to go to the Arctic Ocean for research mission.
The Healy is one of the three heavy Arctic icebreakers operated by the United States.
Meanwhile Canada is beginning to realize that it made a huge blunder when it cancelled plans back in 1980 to build a super icebreaker - a ship that would have defended its claims to its Arctic islands.
In the wake of last week's controversial but impressive Russian flag-planting expedition to the North Pole seabed, and amid rising tensions between five polar nations -- Canada, the U.S., Russia, Norway and Denmark -- over the future ownership of the huge oil and gas deposits that lie beneath the Arctic Ocean seafloor, the Polar 8 would have given Canada a serious upper hand in the emerging scientific, economic and diplomatic battle for the Arctic.
And now it appears Denmark is also rushing in to bolster its sovereignty claims to the north.
According to The Daily Mail, "The Danes plan to set off from Norway's remote Arctic islands of Svalbard aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden, which will be assisted by a powerful Russian nuclear icebreaker to plough through ice as thick as 16 feet in the area north of Greenland"
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at 14:11 on August 10th, 2007
It's good stuff. i wonder how many countries will try to claim a piece. those directly connected should have dibs
good info i didn't know canada had cancelled plans for an icebreaker. it may have been a mistake. I think the best move would be to join forces and equally share. but that might be a pipe dream no pun intended.
at 14:18 on August 10th, 2007
I'd wait until either an American or Russian group built a structure up there, and then "nationalize" it..
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SthPacificat 17:49 on August 10th, 2007
LOL :) they probably will, but we cant complain Australia Decided to just Claim most of the Timor Sea a while back so as they say "If its good for the Goose". I would not worry to much about the Americans If I was Canadian, Putins parting gift to the World has been to prove they are a Paper Tiger. They will soon lose access to the Caspian Basin, as, Russia certainly got her revenge there, BP invested all those 401k's into that and all they have found is Liquid mud. The Russians must have known this and my guesss is that this is what the Sibel edmonds was talking about. Double dealing with the Turks etc.
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KEARNEYat 14:39 on August 10th, 2007
Retuters
use "Titanic" film footage in Russian North Pole story
By Paul Walter(Paul Walter)
Reuters have
admitted illustrating a story about the Russian North Pole undersea
flag-placing with footage from the 1997 film "Titanic". A 13 year-old Finnish
schoolboy spotted the similarity of the pictures. Whatever next?
Liberal Burblings -
http://paulwalter.blogspot.com/
US
rushes icebreaker to counter Ruskie threat to North Pole
By Actual News Geezer
News that the US
government is rushing a Coast Guard icebreaker to the north to coutner
Russia's claim to the North Pole will surely annoy Canadians. read
more.
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NowPublic... - http://www.nowpublic.com
Reuters
Sinking at the North Pole
By
Ariel
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it
released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the
North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were
reproduced around the world ...
Simply Dumb - http://www.simplydumb.com
Russian
North Pole submarine images are actually from the movie
...
Images presented by the Reuters news agency last
Thursday, purporting to show the Finnish-built MIR-1 and MIR-2 submersibles
during a recent Russian scientific expedition to the sea bed 4.3 kilometres
below the Geographic North Pole, ...
Digg / World News / digg -
http://digg.com/world_news
Will
China Have Rights to the North Pole?
By yuri(yuri)
At the moment, the legal picture
surrounding claims to the North Pole is unclear. Countries control 12
miles of their coastal seas; everything beyond that is considered open sea,
available to everyone on an equal basis. ...
Russia Blog - http://www.russiablog.org/
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KEARNEYat 05:59 on August 11th, 2007
Canada Takes on Russia in Race for North Pole
The Arctic is international territory, but Russia's submarine trip to the ocean floor last week has set off an unofficial land rush. Canada is now moving to bolster its claim to Arctic territory.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,499287,00.html
at 06:23 on August 11th, 2007
Good stuff!Will this territory become a flash point for world tensions? It could happen.
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SthPacificat 07:26 on August 11th, 2007
Only If Russia and Finland have a falling out. The US and Canada are in no position to exploit these resources anyway. If they were they would have done so. Russia has as much right to claim this land as Australia does to claim the Timor Sea.
at 10:16 on August 11th, 2007
Looks like a showdown over the Artic.
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KEARNEYat 10:48 on August 11th, 2007
Arctic neighbours draw up battle lines
By Lee Carter
BBC News, Toronto
The Arctic is one of the world's most remote, pristine and for most
people, inhospitable parts of the world. But in recent years, there has
been intense interest in the region from the countries that border it.
No-one knows for certain,
but it is strongly suspected that the seabed below the Arctic Ocean
contains vast deposits of oil, minerals and natural gas.
Last week crews aboard Russian submarines, explored and
mapped out part of the Lomonosov Ridge which Moscow says extends from
Russia's continental shelf.
For good measure one crew took a diversion below the North Pole and in
a gesture that made headlines across the world, dropped a Russian flag
on the ocean floor.
The Canadian government was not amused by the Russian action, prompting
the country's Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mackay to comment.
"You can't go around the world these days dropping
flags somewhere. This isn't the 14th or 15th Century. They're fooling
themselves." Mr Mackay said, adding that there was "no question" that
the waters belonged to Canada.
Jurisdiction over the seabed of the Arctic Ocean is regulated by the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, ratified by Russia,
Canada and Denmark. It is widely expected that the United States will
ratify within the next year.
The future status of the region's ocean floor will be
determined on the basis of scientific evidence that demonstrates
whether or not the seabed is an extension of a claiming country's
continental shelf.
RUSSIA'S ARCTIC CLAIM
1) North Pole:
Russia leaves its flag on the seabed, 4,000m (13,100ft) beneath the
surface, as part of its claims for oil and gas reserves.
2) Lomonosov Ridge:
Russia argues that this underwater feature is an extension of its continental territory and is looking for evidence.
3) 200-nautical mile (370km) line:
Shows how far countries' agreed economic area extends beyond their coastline. Often set from outlying islands.
4) Russian-claimed territory:
The bid to claim a vast area is being closely watched by other countries. Some could follow suit.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/6941569.stm
Published: 2007/08/11 01:41:19 GMT
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