IRELAND SEA GRAB
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for mineral and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the 'Porcupine Abyssal Plain'.
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for mineral and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the 'Porcupine Abyssal Plain'.
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