Battle for Arctic oil intensifies as US sends Clinton to polar summit

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.uk,co

The US government has signalled a new determination to assert its role in Arctic oil and gas exploration by sending secretary of state Hillary Clinton and other ministers to a summit of the region's powers for the first time.

Clinton and the US secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, were both at the biennial meeting in the Greenland capital of Nuuk amid fears by environmentalists of a "carve up" of Arctic resources that could savage a pristine environment.

The political manoeuvres came as Britain's Cairn Energy prepares to drill for oil off Greenland while Shell applies to explore for oil off Alaska and BP has done a deal to explore the Russian Arctic. They also came as cables were released by WikiLeaks showing American diplomats talking about the need to assert US influence over political and economic competitors such as China.

The WikiLeaks site published a dispatch from 2007 - numbered 12958 - detailing a conversation between US diplomats and the then Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Møller, in which they discuss delays in US ratification of a key maritime convention. "If you stay out," Møller is quoted as telling the Americans, "then the rest of us will have more to carve up in the Arctic."



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/12/battle-for-arctic-oil-intensifies

[UnrepentantLiberal]

1. But Obama cares about the environment. If only Republicans weren't

forcing him to drill there. He's doing the best he can.

[DURHAM D]

2. You didn't read the article did you?

Read this article also:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaig...



Then read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea

[UnrepentantLiberal]

3. That was sarcasm. Obama is a Republican.

[iwishiwas]

6. I would like to read the greenpeace article but the link is bad....

Can you try again please. thanks in advance.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace USA


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[Rage for Order]

4. Drilling for oil in the Arctic Circle. What could possibly go wrong?

:shrug:

[Uncle Joe]

5. Now this is the madness of addiction.

Greenpeace oil campaigner Ben Ayliffe said the latest revelations were extremely disturbing. "Instead of seeing the melting of the Arctic ice cap as a spur to action on climate change, the leaders of the Arctic nations are instead investing in military hardware to fight for the oil beneath it. They're preparing to fight to extract the very fossil fuels that caused the melting in the first place. It's like pouring gasoline on a fire."

And these ass-wipes are worried about cannabis!

Thanks for thread, CHIMO.