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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Denmark Plans to Claim the North Pole

Denmark plans to lay claim to parts of the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas, a leaked government document showed Tuesday.

The draft document, titled “Strategy for the Arctic,” said Denmark’s Science Ministry had started collecting data to formally submit a claim for those areas no later than 2014 to the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Russia, Norway and the United States have their own claims — sometimes competing — in a region believed to hold as much as 25 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas.

5 comments:

The Right Guy said...

Since you don't have an email address, this will have to do. How do you like the throngs of media in your town? Bakersfield, home of Arnold's honey. You should report on the reporting. Anyway, I'll be back sometime to comment on something more relavant.

Gary said...

You need to beat the mass of reporters off with a stick. She lives just a few blocks away.

The Right Guy said...

Here's your chance at fame Gary, go for it...You need to publish an email address.

Thomas said...

But the Danes and Canadians are going to have to deal with the government of the sovereign Principality of Tartupaluk, which before its Declaration of Independence on June 3, 2006, was known as "Hans Island", situated between Ellesmere Island and Greenland

http://www.gov.tu.net/
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=3ee12855-0a73-4399-82ab-3bb28eb586af&k=79169

Gary said...

It is going to get ugly up there when Russia, the U.S. and other nations start going at it.