Canada poised to make big claim on Arctic riches

Good job guys!

Now this is quite interesting...I wonder how this will turn out...or how the Russian will take this...

I highly doubt its going to end there. I can see major disputes held in the ICJ over this territory. And after thats decided, then comes the whole enviornment vs. drilling dispute.

Don't need no UN. Simple:

haha that looks good to me

Ha, yeah, it looks good to you? Russia has more territory.....Afraid it's more complicated than that but nice try...

Well the good thing is that there will probaly won't be any US disputes. Current treaties will honor the boundaries all the way up to the pole.

Canada and the United States could face a major conflict over control of part of the Beaufort Sea�an area believed to be rich in undiscovered oil and gas reserves�that could be more contentious than the ongoing bilateral dispute over the Northwest Passage. Both countries are currently preparing their case to settle a maritime boundary dispute that would decide which country controls offshore oil rights in the Beaufort Sea. In order for the United States to win its claim, the U.S. government must first follow Canada�s lead and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Failure to ratify the treaty would prevent the United States from asserting its rights over offshore areas. Regardless of whether or not the United States decides to ratify the treaty, Canada and the United States will most likely face tense bilateral negotiations over control of the mineral-rich portion of the Beaufort Sea in the near future.

Looing at the map posted above, I don't think we are getting our fair share. Instead of dividing the arctic up liek a pie, it should be divided so that any given water area belongs to the closest landmass. Russia would lose some territory, so would the States, but Canada and Denmark would have alot to gain.

I know that it isn't exactly justified and what I'm going to say will sound assholish, but fuck it...

The Arctic is and should be ours. Canadian.

We have the world's most northerly permanently inhabited settlement, the Arctic Archipelago, the Canadian Coast Guard which is almost entirely ice-breakers, the most northern reaching territory(except maybe Denmark), and we are one of the few countries whose fully connected borders actually reaches the Arctic.

I say we mine the Northwest Passage and dare anyone to try and go through it.

On top of that, I say it's high time we properly outfit the Rangers, build those proper highways up to Churchill and Tuktoyaktuk, build some airbases and deep-sea ports, and actually show the world---for the millionth time in history---not to fuck with Canada.

Build a highway to Toktoyaktuk? You dont know how absurd and impossible that idea is.Sorry but all roads north end at Churchill.You kind of run out of land right about there for a bit.

is it possible to build a bridged highway or causeway (like they have in Louisiana over the bayou) over the permafrost? or is that impossible? it may be fiscally impractical, I dunno. ziggy, you seem to spend a fair amount of time up there what do you think?

The Distance between Churchill Manitoba and Baker Lake (Nunavut) is :
630.14 kilometers (km).

In Other Units:
391.55 miles.

The Distance between Churchill Manitoba and Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories,Canada) is :
2178.98 kilometers (km).

In Other Units:
1353.95 miles.


And that's as the crow flies....

And its all water inbetween unless you wanted to portage for a few thousand miles.