NATO's 'military activity in the High North' may then
be put to something other than its main purpose of
confronting Russia.
The Icelandic protesters realized what the Fox writer
did when he finished his report with "The image
Wednesday of a NATO flag being burned by protesters in
front of a meeting held by the Alliance cannot be too
pleasing to the U.S."
One has come to expect of NATO to dutifully and
punctually follow every twist and turn, every
disingenuous casus belli proffered by the US - war to
defend the concept of national sovereignty (Iraq,
1991), war to override national sovereignty
(Yugoslavia, 1999), war on behalf of narco-trafficking
extremists (Kosovo, 1999), war to exterminate anyone
accused of the same (Colombia since 1999, Afghanistan
now) - but why the urgency just now?
Three years ago the London Times in a report from
Norway wrote about what it called the "Arctic Bridge"
and "The fabled Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific through the Arctic archipelago of
Canada," remarking that the two could insure that
"Cargo from Europe to the Far East could cut 4,000
miles from the journey by cruising through the
passage, compared with the route through the Panama
Canal...."
(The Times, February 11, 2006)
And a year and a half ago a Russian press source
stated "the Northern Sea Route, running through the
Arctic Ocean along Russia's northern coast, is the
shortest way from Europe to Asia and the Pacific coast
of America, which will make it easy to transport oil
and gas from Arctic deposits."
(Russian Information Agency Novosti, July 25, 2007).
In the same month the US government's Radio Free
Europe revealed yet more:
"The Arctic and Antarctica are the last vast untapped
reservoirs of mineral resources on the planet.
Underneath the Arctic Ocean, there are gigantic
reserves of tin, manganese, nickel, gold, platinum,
and diamonds.
"But the Arctic's most lucrative treasure is the
enormous deposits of oil and gas, which could amount
to 25 percent of the world's resources."
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, July 27, 2007)
The following month a major Chinese newspaper wrote
about the Arctic:
"'This will probably be the last big shift in
ownership of territory in the history of the earth,'
said Lars Kullerud, who advises developing states on
submissions at the GRID-Arendal foundation, run by the
UN Environment Program and Norway.
"'Many countries don't realize how serious it is."'
(People's Daily August 16, 2007)
At the same time the Russia daily daily Rossiiskaya
Gazeta [said] the division of the Arctic is the start
of a new redistribution of the world.'
(Agence France-Presse, August 3, 2007)
Confirmatory of the above and serving as a spur to
both the US National Security Presidential Directive
66 and the NATO conference on the Arctic of four days
ago is a U.S. Geological Survey of May of 2008.
The complete report can be read at:
http://geology.com/usgs/arctic-oil-and-gas-report.shtml
The gist of it is:
"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has completed an
assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas
resources in all areas north of the Arctic Circle.
Using a geology-based probabilistic methodology, the
USGS estimated the occurrence of undiscovered oil and
gas in 33 geologic provinces thought to be prospective
for petroleum. The sum of the mean estimates for each
province indicates that 90 billion barrels of oil,
1,669 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 44
billion barrels of natural gas liquids may remain to
be found in the Arctic, of which approximately 84
percent is expected to occur in offshore areas."
A Reuters report of two months after the release of
the report bore the title "Arctic's oil could meet
world demand for three years" and a synopsis of the
Geological Survey study framed its significance in
these words:
"The unexplored Arctic contains about one-fifth of the
world's undiscovered oil and nearly a third of the
natural gas yet to be found....The untapped reserves
are beneath the seafloor in geopolitically
controversial areas above the Arctic Circle."
(Live Science, July 24, 2008)
be put to something other than its main purpose of
confronting Russia.
The Icelandic protesters realized what the Fox writer
did when he finished his report with "The image
Wednesday of a NATO flag being burned by protesters in
front of a meeting held by the Alliance cannot be too
pleasing to the U.S."
One has come to expect of NATO to dutifully and
punctually follow every twist and turn, every
disingenuous casus belli proffered by the US - war to
defend the concept of national sovereignty (Iraq,
1991), war to override national sovereignty
(Yugoslavia, 1999), war on behalf of narco-trafficking
extremists (Kosovo, 1999), war to exterminate anyone
accused of the same (Colombia since 1999, Afghanistan
now) - but why the urgency just now?
Three years ago the London Times in a report from
Norway wrote about what it called the "Arctic Bridge"
and "The fabled Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific through the Arctic archipelago of
Canada," remarking that the two could insure that
"Cargo from Europe to the Far East could cut 4,000
miles from the journey by cruising through the
passage, compared with the route through the Panama
Canal...."
(The Times, February 11, 2006)
stated "the Northern Sea Route, running through the
Arctic Ocean along Russia's northern coast, is the
shortest way from Europe to Asia and the Pacific coast
of America, which will make it easy to transport oil
and gas from Arctic deposits."
(Russian Information Agency Novosti, July 25, 2007).
In the same month the US government's Radio Free
Europe revealed yet more:
"The Arctic and Antarctica are the last vast untapped
reservoirs of mineral resources on the planet.
Underneath the Arctic Ocean, there are gigantic
reserves of tin, manganese, nickel, gold, platinum,
and diamonds.
"But the Arctic's most lucrative treasure is the
enormous deposits of oil and gas, which could amount
to 25 percent of the world's resources."
(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, July 27, 2007)
The following month a major Chinese newspaper wrote
about the Arctic:
"'This will probably be the last big shift in
ownership of territory in the history of the earth,'
said Lars Kullerud, who advises developing states on
submissions at the GRID-Arendal foundation, run by the
UN Environment Program and Norway.
"'Many countries don't realize how serious it is."'
(People's Daily August 16, 2007)
At the same time the Russia daily daily Rossiiskaya
Gazeta [said] the division of the Arctic is the start
of a new redistribution of the world.'
(Agence France-Presse, August 3, 2007)
Confirmatory of the above and serving as a spur to
both the US National Security Presidential Directive
66 and the NATO conference on the Arctic of four days
ago is a U.S. Geological Survey of May of 2008.
The complete report can be read at:
http://geology.com/usgs/arctic-oil-and-gas-report.shtml
The gist of it is:
"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has completed an
assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas
resources in all areas north of the Arctic Circle.
Using a geology-based probabilistic methodology, the
USGS estimated the occurrence of undiscovered oil and
gas in 33 geologic provinces thought to be prospective
for petroleum. The sum of the mean estimates for each
province indicates that 90 billion barrels of oil,
1,669 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 44
billion barrels of natural gas liquids may remain to
be found in the Arctic, of which approximately 84
percent is expected to occur in offshore areas."
A Reuters report of two months after the release of
the report bore the title "Arctic's oil could meet
world demand for three years" and a synopsis of the
Geological Survey study framed its significance in
these words:
"The unexplored Arctic contains about one-fifth of the
world's undiscovered oil and nearly a third of the
natural gas yet to be found....The untapped reserves
are beneath the seafloor in geopolitically
controversial areas above the Arctic Circle."
(Live Science, July 24, 2008)
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