WikiLeaks: A battle to 'carve up' the Arctic

[tex-wyo-dem]

My apologies if this has already been posted, but I felt it important...

WikiLeaks: A battle to 'carve up' the Arctic

It is considered the final frontier for oil and gas exploitation, and secret US embassy cables published by WikiLeaks confirm that nations are battling to "carve up" the Arctic's vast resources.

"The twenty-first century will see a fight for resources," Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying in a 2010 cable. "Russia should not be defeated in this fight."

Along with exposing an estimated 22 per cent of the world's oil, ice melting due to global warming will open new shipping lanes, the arteries of global commerce, which nations are competing to control. And Russia certainly is not the only country eyeing the frozen prize.

Per Stig Moller, then Danish foreign minister, mused in a 2009 cable that "new shipping routes and natural resource discoveries would eventually place the region at the centre of world politics".

<more...> http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/201151713273937174.html

So, we overdose on a drug/resource that is the major contributor to climate change that is killing the planet...and the climate change, in turn, allows access to more of the drug so we can finish the job off.

Wonder if anyone else sees this irony.

[Renew Deal]

1. This is kind of old news.

This contents of this story have been out there for a while.

[tex-wyo-dem]

2. Thanks...hadn't seen it before so thought I would post...

The irony of the whole thing is what stuns me.

[Renew Deal]

4. The cable itself might be new

So it is still news. :)

[girl gone mad]

3. k & r