Canada 'to reclaim Arctic waters' !!

[Coexist]

from the BBC:

Canada has announced plans for six naval patrol vessels and a deep-water port in the north to assert its claim to territorial waters in the Arctic. Other countries, including the US, say the waters are international territory.

The claim could also have serious economic implications. Natural resources including oil, gas and diamonds are thought to lurk - perhaps in abundance - under the Arctic ice.

And then there is the North-West Passage - the northern shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that European explorers sought for centuries.

With a warming climate, the route may just become viable and lucrative.

Oh, Coulter's just gonna' have a COW! over this one.

[slackmaster]

1. Fifty Four Forty or Fight!

[SpiralHawk]

3. Tippy Canoe and Commander AWOL, too !

fer sure

Documentary Evidence of the so-called "canoe" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) that Commander AWOL used to paddle around in snorting cocaine with male prostitute Jeff Gannon after Gannon falsely claimed to be a US Marine, and Bush DESERTED the Texas Air National Guard:



That's a "fact" jack, excavated from the Faux News North Pole (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) Bureau.

[InternalDialogue]

2. I believe Russia just staked a claim to some Arctic waters itself.

Their contention was that the continental shelf that extends north of Russia into the Arctic effectively increased their territorial waters. It was just last week I heard of the report, which was going to the international agency that determines such things. I wonder if Canada's claim in any way is a response...

[applegrove]

4. It is such an easy political move for Harper. Patriotism. Does he really

mean it? Really, really? I thought he was in * pocket. I guess he has to look like a Liberal government to get a majority in the next election. Now that he has dropped imminent extention of Canada's role in Afghanistan because 2/3 of Canadians were against a longer deployment.

I hope Canadians are smart enough to ignore him and his temporary pandering to Canadians worst fears. Cause once in power..the conservatives s will tear the country apart in the typical neocons social experiment. They love social engineering. Look at the US!

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Canada's too small a country to pull this off. So

They need to join something bigger. Like the EU.

[1620rock]

6. Er, don't you have to be in Europe to join the EU?

[DavidDvorkin]

12. I don't see why

If a country applies and the EU votes to admit it, then it's part of the EU.

Whether both of those things is likely to happen with a country that's 3,000 miles from Europe is a different matter, of course.

In any case, I've been thinking about that scenario for a while. Included it in my most recent novel, in fact. (The resulting setup was called the Northern Union, and the currency was the Neuro. It's a comic novel.) If it could happen, I think it would be a great thing for the world.

[lovuian]

7. Its a land thats up for grabs

its amazing times

[some guy]

8. would that someone really would/could

reclaim or capture the water running into the seas as it melts. That's mostly freshwater and is going to be far more valuable than what lies under the emerging tundra.

[irislake]

9. Hmmmmmm

I wonder who is gonna get it?

[irislake]

10. But

we did win the war of 1812!

[terrya]

11. Good for Canada

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