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As
Pitch Made for
Arctic Shelf,
"Death by
Power Point"
Asserted, City
Under Ice
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 9 --
The UN,
particularly
its 1B
basement area,
is full of
closed
meetings these
days. But one
stood out from
the others
on February 9,
with a team of
two dozen in
suits ready to
make a pitch
for a piece of
the Arctic.
It was the
closed door
meeting of
the UN
Commission on
the Limits of
the
Continental
Shelf, a body
Inner City
Press has previously
covered, for
example on
controversies
surrounding
claims to
Somalia's
shelf, see
here.
The
February 9
session, which
was moved from
Conference
Room 6 to 5
and in which a
more than hour
and a half
presentation
was made about
the Lomonosov
Ridge and
other areas,
has economic
consequences.
Denmark,
through “its”
Greenland,
made a pitch
in 2014.
This
pitch was
longer -- one
attendee
whispered to
Inner City
Press is was
like “death by
Point Point”
-- but the
area claimed
is larger,
too, it was
argued
afterward.
Last month the
US television
network CBS
promoted an
old segment by
Walter
Cronkite,
promoting a US
“City Under
the Ice” in
Greenland
complete with
a nuclear
power plant.
That worked
out badly, no
one even
wanting the
decommissioned
power plant in
the end. But
the hunger for
the Arctic is
back: Cities
Under Ice,
indeed....
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