Canadian Politics
Stephen Harper Wants to Stifle Democracy in Canada
Censoring Sex, Homosexuality & Violence in Canadian Films
Canadian Christmas Shoppers
Dollar Fifty/Litre Gasoline
Canada's Worker Shortages
The Race for Arctic Oil
Ontario's Untapped Oil Reserves
Military Suicides in Canada
Canadian News of 2007
Ipperwash Returned to Native Hands
Canadian Immigration Surging
The Roots of Quebec Separatism
Canadian Dollar Soaring
Gun Control in Canada
Canadian Loonie on a Roll
The RCMP Fumbles the Ball... AGAIN
Andre Boisclair Leaves Politics
Toronto Green
Will Canada go Penny-less?
Canadian Babyboomers
Canadian Education
Canadian Electricity
Canadian Responsibility
Canadian Healthcare
Canadian Water Safety
A Fair Share for Canadian Farmers
Canadian Political Spectrum
Harper Vs Healthcare
Mike Harris Vs Walkerton Water
Ontario Pot
Pope against Canadian Gay Marriages
Harper Vs Kyoto
Canadian Smoking Laws
Ontario and Quebec Ban Smoking in Public Places
Quebec: Andre Boisclair
Canadian Gay Marriages
Canadian & Quebec Unity
Doctors driving Taxis?
Assassin murdered on Highway 401
The Canadian Sex Industry
The War on Plastic Bags
European & Russian Politics
The Impact of Disaster Capitalism on England's Education System
Privatizing Education in Sweden
Hurricanes in Europe?
Global Warming in Russia & the North Atlantic
Russian Oil Politics
The Hutton Inquiry
Passing over Prince Charles
General/News
Political & Economic News of 2007
Languages of the World Statistics
The World's Smallest Countries
Interracial Marriage: Is Love Colourblind?
Water: A Human Right
The Politics of War & Terrorism
The Doomsday Clock
Bioterrorism and the Future
101 Terrorist Targets in America
Middle Eastern Politics
Afghanistan: A Tale of Two Countries
Iran: Nuclear Threat or Hype?
Iraq: Weapons of Mass Destruction & Civil War
Afghanistan's Terrorist Warlords
Pakistan's Cultural Revolution
Is Syria Next?
Israel Kills Refugees
Will your Grandchildren be Jewish?
Jewish Intermarriage Statistics
The Jew who would be Palestinian
Iraqi Prostitutes
Bush Senior Vs Iraq
Where is Osama bin Laden?
Bush: Torturing Terrorists & Space Exploration
Iraqi Civil War
Bush Senior & Iraq's Oil
A Prison called Palestine
Impeachment? Or Iran War?
Warlords Capture Capitol
Nuclear War with Iran Unlikely
Five More Soldiers charged with Rape
Saddam's Death Sentence
Grandmother Kills Israelis
Mass Graves in Iraq
The Iran War: We may have no Choice
More Bloodshed in Palestine
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
The History of Oil Prices
The Race for Arctic Oil
North of Russia and Canada, in the Bering Sea and Baffin Bay inbetween Canada and Greenland is vast regions of International Waters, with vast resources of oil lying below the earth's crust.
The problem with International Waters in the Arctic Ocean is that no one owns the sea, so basically anyone can drill there, tap it for oil and ship it to whatever country willing to pay the most (or hoard it to themselves for economics reasons).
With the speedy progress of global warming previously ice-jammed areas of the arctic sea are now safe to explore and map, don't think it is yet safe to drill for oil. Icebergs floating down from the high arctic can still do considerable damage to an oil rig (Titanic anyone?).
So in the meantime the lower reaches of the arctic are available for oil exploration, but like lake fishing the best spots usually get taken pretty quickly. In the next few years the lower arctic regions are going to be abuzz with test drillings, oil rigs and tug boats escorting dangerous icebergs.
The environmentalists are going to be spitting hellfire by the time it gets into fullswing and preaching the virtues of hydrogen cars.
But there are other issues as well.
Denmark (which owns Greenland) has laid claim to Canada's most northern reaches of land (which geologists believe may contain gold, uranium and other precious metals). Canada says that land is clearly theirs and occupied by Canadian people, but this is not entirely true. The most northern Canadian settlement is Resolute. Beyond that, at the extreme tip of Canada's sovereign territory is Alert, a military base and radar tower. Denmark argues that the region inbetween Alert and Resolute (the Queen Elizabeth Islands) belongs to Denmark and is part of Greenland.
But if settlement equals ownership where is Denmark's settlements in Northern Canada? There isn't any. It is a stupid argument. The closest Danish settlement is Qaanaaq on Greenland itself.
And this dispute is now becoming a military issue as the Canadian coast guard patrols the region and has spotted submarines breaching the surface ice. Is Denmark sending its submarines to explore the region? Currently only Canada and its NATO allies are supposed to have submarines in that region, but military records show that other countries (not just Denmark) seem to be exploring and mapping the region.
