ARCTIC COUNTRIES JOSTLE FOR POSITION OVER OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION CONTROLS
April 1st, 2013
WHEN a titanium Russian flag was audaciously planted on the seabed 4,200m below the North Pole in 2007, it took the world by surprise, suggesting Russia was serious in its claims to the Arctic.Russia is not alone. In all five Arctic coastal nations - the USA, Canada, Norway, Russia and Denmark (through Greenland) have laid claims to a slice of the Arctic. The trigger for this activity is the melting ice: last September, when the Arctic ice reached its annual minimum extent, it covered 3.61 million square kilometers, 690,000 square kilometers less than the ...
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