The Arctic Frontier - Armed with Cooperation
..., many argued there is no luxury of being too politicised as the Arctic is extremely vast and complex, making cooperation simply a must because not a single country commands the ability or technology to confront its challenges singlehandedly. As the conference went on a news emerged that Canada just applied to have its seabed boarders extentended into the Arctic seafloor by about 1.7 million sq km, where an estimated 30% of world's untapped gas and 15% of oil is preserved (Daily Mail, 2013). A similar claim was made by Russia in 2001, when it filed the UN's CLCS for an extension by arguing that the underwater Lomonosov Ridge was an extension of its territory which amounted to 1.2 ...