Putin: The North Pole is techinally owned by Russia.

[Chicken]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=464921&in_page_id=1811


Ha, damn Putin.

Canada has laid some claims on the North Pole as have all the other countries around it, Russia already tried to do this in 2001 and got shot down by the UN. Norway, Canada, the United States and Denmark all contested when Russia laid claims in 2001.

 

[whitebark]

With the amount of oil and gas under there this issue is not going away any time soon. The US is pressing Canada to cede claim to a large part of the arctic - not going to happen. The northwest passage is in Canadian territory whether they or the Russians like it or not.

As for the Russian claim - in a bbc article on the same topic a geographer says that same underwater shelf they reason entitles them to the claim also extends from Canada. We don't have nukes to force our claim but we have Celine Dion, so don't piss us off or you will be forced to listen to her!

 

[dgridley]

In other news, Santa Claus has troops of elves massing on the border prepared to repel a Russian invasion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=464921&in_page_id=1811


Ha, damn Putin.

Canada has laid some claims on the North Pole as have all the other countries around it, Russia already tried to do this in 2001 and got shot down by the UN. Norway, Canada, the United States and Denmark all contested when Russia laid claims in 2001.

 

[Chicken]

With the amount of oil and gas under there this issue is not going away any time soon. The US is pressing Canada to cede claim to a large part of the arctic - not going to happen. The northwest passage is in Canadian territory whether they or the Russians like it or not.

As for the Russian claim - in a bbc article on the same topic a geographer says that same underwater shelf they reason entitles them to the claim also extends from Canada. We don't have nukes to force our claim but we have Celine Dion, so don't piss us off or you will be forced to listen to her!

Yeah the states really don't like that Canada laid claims to the land they say it is International water while Canada says that it is internal waters. The U.S continues to send subs etc through there without permission from Canada. Our new PM actual made that an issue in his first news conference. He also said that we would continue to state our sovereignty over it.

And about Russia and the shelfs,

Canada "could say that the Lomonosov ridge is part of the Canadian shelf, which means Russia should in fact belong to Canada, together with the whole of Eurasia", he observed drily.

In other news, Santa Claus has troops of elves massing on the border prepared to repel a Russian invasion.

Santa Claus likes his Vodka :hehe:

 

[dgridley]

Santa already repelled a Martian invasion.. Santa Claus vs The Martians (great movies! yeah riiiiiiiiiiiight!)

 

[dhscott]

AFAIK, the closest mainland to the North Pole is Greenland. Denmark is sitting on a gold mine with Greenland with oil resources, land resources etc. They're really the only ones to truly gain from Global Warming it would seem (Most of Greenland is under 2.5Km of Ice! That's a mile and a half deep!)

The logical thing to do would be to draw a circle around the north pole; it can be small, (say a mile) and then draw lines extending to the territories around it. Russia would get a very sizeable sum ofcourse

 

[Chicken]

AFAIK, the closest mainland to the North Pole is Greenland. Denmark is sitting on a gold mine with Greenland with oil resources, land resources etc. They're really the only ones to truly gain from Global Warming it would seem (Most of Greenland is under 2.5Km of Ice! That's a mile and a half deep!)

The logical thing to do would be to draw a circle around the north pole; it can be small, (say a mile) and then draw lines extending to the territories around it. Russia would get a very sizeable sum ofcourse

Logical would be to keep it as-is.

 

[ChrisChris]

Would it help the issue at all if they just gave it to me? :hehe: