PSCI 3607 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
11 Apr 2017
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Shipping and transit: cut by 40, nsr, polar route, north west passage. Oil and gas: reasons to doubt conflict, 4 different areas. Russia: militarizing arctic, airfields, fighters and bombers, arctic command, permanent force, deployment, northern fleet, submarine. Russian navy focus: 2007 planted flag, restarted sub, patrols into north atlantic, giuk gap, freeland iceland uk. For centuries, explorers searched for a direct passage from europe to asia. Some dude found a way to get from atlantic to pacific. Climate change leading to ability to go though the north west passage without encountering ice. Inuit can see the difference in the arctic every summer. Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Col (retired) pierre leblanc former commander of canadian forcecs in northern areas: warned goc about climate change in the arctic but it was too late once the government acknowledged this. Nwp: 7km shorter than the panama canal. Canada: nwp is internal waters occupied by inuit.
