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Russia Steps up Presence in High Arctic

Print Friday, 08 October 2010 07:03 Written by Ilya Kharlamov, Voice of Russia



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The global warming process gradually melts the Arctic Ice Cap, making the High Arctic increasingly open to fishing, shipping and geological exploration to tap a treasure trove of an estimated 30 trillion dollars worth of minerals, oil and natural gas.

Salivating for these are companies in many nations, primarily in the circumpolar family of Russia, Canada, the United States, Denmark and Norway. Four of the quintet are members of NATO, which sometimes pushes them so far as to contemplate an Arctic military confrontation with Russia.

This country categorically dismisses accusations of planning a military build-up in the Arctic area. Its two-year-old national guidelines for the Arctic emphasize cooperation in exploring the Arctic Ocean and diplomacy in deciding who owns what on the resource-rich Arctic Shelf.

What this country really needs is investment and cutting-edge Arctic technology. We hear about this from Professor Igor Davidenko:

"In a bid to stake out Arctic claims, the Americans are building a fleet of futuristic ice-breakers. The Japanese have already built a marvel platform for drilling up to five kilometres into the seabed at up to 10-kilometre depths. If Russia is not to lose out, it has to quickly catch up."

Russia also continues its programme of exploration and scientific research in the High Arctic.

In the outgoing week, the nuclear-powered icebreaker 'Rossia' left the Barents Sea port of Murmansk on a month-long mission to plant 15 explorers on a chosen ice field for establishing the next Russian research outpost on the Arctic Ice Cap.The planned station is named North Pole 38. It will be tracking the weather, gathering evidence of climate change and carry out research in the interests of the Russian Navy and commercial shipping along the Northeast and the Northwest Passages from Europe to East Asia.

The icebreaker mission is led by the Kremlin envoy for Arctic issues, the polar explorer Arthur Chilingarov. In Murmansk, it received a send-off from Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov.