Canada, U.S. to team up on Arctic seabed mapping project
(CBC) - The United States and Canada, which have been known to disagree on certain Arctic sovereignty claims, will collaborate for the first time on a United Nations scientific mapping project aimed at extending their sovereignty in the Arctic.
Canadian officials said Canadian and American icebreakers will head northward later this summer to map the Canada Basin, located north of the Beaufort Sea.
"We're talking the area to the west and north of Banks Island, so we're quite a ways north," said Michael Gardiner, the Canadian Coast Guard's assistant commissioner for the central and Arctic region.
Both countries are trying to prove their continental shelves extend beyond the 200 nautical- mile economic zone, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
At stake for those countries and other Arctic nations is a vast area of seabed that may be rich in oil and natural gas.
Canada, which ratified the treaty in 2003, is already collaborating with Denmark on mapping the Lomonosov Ridge, located just off the coasts of Ellesmere Island and Greenland.
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Stumble It!
Well, there WILL be more tension of Russian ships keep entering our waters. Canada should freaking blow those ships apart.