CLIMATE change is stripping the Arctic Ocean of its ice. So how do the nations in the region respond? With an unseemly scramble to lay claim to the exposed chunks of continental shelf so they can drill for more oil and gas. You couldn’t make it up.
Russia grabbed the headlines last month by planting a flag on the ocean bed to dramatise its claim under the UN Law of the Sea to oil and mineral rights beneath a large part of the ocean. Other nations surrounding the ocean are equally determined to grab a slice of the action (New…
