🇦🇶The Battle for the Arctic l Fault Lines
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Published 2012-11-14
The UN has imposed a 2013 deadline for the submission of scientific claims to the Arctic seabed. It is the precursor to a resource boom which would see Canada, the US, Russia, Norway and Greenland all attempt to exploit the region's resources.
These Arctic countries are desperately mapping out their territories so they can tap into the fossil fuels and minerals locked beneath the fast melting ice.
And with global warming speeding up the melting of the Polar ice caps, potential shipping routes are opening up - raising concerns about oil spills, and control over these new passageways.
Fault Lines' Josh Rushing heads to the Far North to see first-hand how Arctic countries are responding to the potential bonanza.
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All Comments (21)
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good documentary for a short overview, still leaves a lot to be learned
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Seriously there's no place left on the panet to escape from the big corporate and national interests ... We are all stuck in this mechanism of growth and consumption ... Nobody knows where this will end
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That has to be one of the greatest quotes I've heard in a long time.
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Military IS Economics.
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Oil, natural gas or fish. I will take fish.
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The arctic natives will suffer and not get rich because all the corporations and politicans will get it.
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This is INSANE!
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"..then we'll realize we cant eat money" well said at the end of the video to conclude it.
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Maybe at some point the seals, sea lions, walruses, whales, polar bears, arctic fish, Caribou, moose, elk, oxen, will all make a come back
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Now the turn of minerals?????
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Probably wont be any conflicts. However, if an oil-spill were to happen, the consequences would be horrible...
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Am watching this for Gografy
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I know we already do a lot but please more indigenous people representations please
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It'll never happen, the Canadians always were & are our brothers
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People by nature are greedy! We have about 450 years in this world. Go ahead. Explore! 😂😢
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Did I hear a Lamb of God fan? While it might not be a direct quote.... We sure can't eat paper with numbers on it..
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Eh, except i think scientists should have access to it. Just scientists though
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Aint Mahathir already said that this area is belong to the world!
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In the Henoch prophesies this is what ultimately brings World War 3.
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Nope. Actually it warms it up. Also, you cannot really blame the sun. Think about - it for past few years the Sun was in minimum state, yet the planet is warming. You can prove it yourself by doing your own experiment instead of listening to lots of BS.
