from alaska dispatch....
The future of the A5
"I point all of this out because I think the idea that five states ‘own’ the Arctic Ocean will soon become quite quaint, if it isn’t viewed as such already. My criticism of the prevailing Arctic rhetoric aside, it seems as though a last gasp at territorial conquest is occurring in the Arctic with regards to continental shelf claims. But in the next decade or so those claims will have been settled, and the rights won will be bought and sold to giant oil companies. The next A5 will not include Canada and Russia and the United States – it will be BP, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Lukoil and ConocoPhillips."
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