OTTAWA – A defence expert says Russia’s new bid for a vast swath of Arctic territory, including the North Pole, backs Canada into an uncomfortable corner in future negotiations over the frozen region.Moscow’s revised international submission was revealed today in a statement by the country’s foreign ministry and claims 1.2 million square kilometres of the Arctic shelf.Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark and Norway are working with the UN to define jurisdictional boundaries in the Arctic, which is thought to hold as much as a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas.In late 2013, the Harper government ordered officials to …read more
Source: National Newswatch
