Canada is going to grow at the expense of the Arctic – Utro.Ru

Canada sent a Arctic a six-week mission to map the seabed, reports the BBC. The data collected by the Canadian authorities are going to use to support the expansion plans of the country due to the Arctic.

Icebreaker “Terry Fox” and “Louis St. Lawrence” will explore the area east of the Lomonosov Ridge. One of them left the port of Newfoundland on Friday, the second goes on an expedition on Saturday. If weather conditions permit, the expedition also examines the areas adjacent to the North Pole.

At the end of last year, Canada has sent to the UN Commission on the Law of the Sea for an extension of its continental shelf by the Lomonosov Ridge. It claims 1.2 million square meters. km offshore; in the final application are going to include the North Pole. Affirm the right of the Arctic Ottawa succeed only if it is proved that the Lomonosov Ridge is a natural extension of the Canadian shelf.

In this area also claimed by Russia and Denmark. Each country insists that the underwater ridge is an extension of its territory, and trying to find a scientific basis for this.

According to the Convention on the Law of the Sea of ​​the United Nations, in the territory of any country included a 13-mile zone of territorial waters and the 200-mile exclusive economic zone. In addition, the state can lay claim to other areas of the seabed, if it can prove that it is an extension of its continental shelf.

Experts explain the significantly increased in recent years, interest in the resources of the Arctic Ocean the fact that global warming access to them much simpler. According to preliminary estimates, in the region of the Arctic shelf can contain up to a quarter of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves.

on the Arctic shelf is currently claimed by Russia in addition to Canada and Denmark. Moscow has put forward its claim in 2002. If RF is able to prove that the underwater Arctic Lomonosov and Mendeleyev ridges that extend to Greenland, are a geological extension of its continental shelf, it would be eligible for exploration and production of hydrocarbon resources in the area of ​​1.2 million square feet. km in between Chukotka, Murmansk and the North Pole.

Denmark wants to get to the property 62 thousand. sq. km offshore. In 2009, claims were satisfied Norway 235 thousand. Sq. km offshore.

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