{"id":329201,"date":"2024-05-16T07:35:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329201"},"modified":"2024-05-16T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:35:16","slug":"russia-discovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-in-antarctica-ten-times-bigger-than-north-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329201","title":{"rendered":"Russia discovers oil and gas reserves in Antarctica \u2014 ten times bigger than North Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While no one was paying attention, a Russian ship exploring Antarctica claims it has found oil and gas deposits that are ten times larger than the North Sea. Presumably quite a lot of countries would find this very interesting. At the moment Antarctica is supposedly protected by a piece of paper, but those who want to keep something so valuable to themselves will be needing more than cellulose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could take some fossil fuels to protect these fossil fuels<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hard to see any nation keeping control of this oil and gas field using sailing boats, solar powered ships and missiles running on palm oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Johnathon Leake, Telegraph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has found vast oil and gas reserves in the Antarctic, much of it in areas claimed by the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surveys are a prelude to bringing in drilling rigs to exploit the pristine region for fossil fuels, MPs have warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reserves totalling 511bn barrels of oil \u2013 about 10 times the North Sea\u2019s entire 50-year output<\/a> \u2013 have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC) last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It follows a series of surveys by the Alexander Karpinsky vessel, operated by Rosgeo \u2013 the Russian agency charged with finding mineral reserves for commercial exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total extracted from the North sea up until 2014 was about 42 billion barrels of \u201coil equivalent\u201d<\/a>.  Green fanatics would be horrified to think of all the emissions that might be unleashed, but 3 billion cold people in China, Russia, India and Japan might have a different view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to believe no one has staked a claim on Marie Byrd Land. We\u2019re they just too busy to attend the meeting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russia claims that its boat was just doing scientific research (just like those Japanese whalers were).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At least a part of the UK government apparently found out about this when a South African newspaper published a story on it. (Who needs intelligence when you can read the Daily Maverick<\/em>?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EAC [Environment Audit Committee] decided to challenge the Foreign Office\u2019s management of the UK\u2019s Antarctic interests following reports in the Daily Maverick<\/a>, a South African online journal, which discovered Moscow\u2019s activities after its survey ship docked in Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The British government has officially said they believe the Russians, but a few in the British government are skeptical. (From the Daily Maverick<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Anna McMorrin, a Labour MP on the polar audit sub-committee] asked FCDO Under-Secretary David Rutley\u2026  if he was \u201caware\u201d of the Rosgeo vessels, under US sanctions since February, and how the UK was to respond at the annual Antarctic Treaty consultative meeting (ATCM) in India from May 20 to 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The under-secretary defended Russia\u2019s \u201crepeated assurances\u201d at ATCMs \u201cthat these activities are for scientific purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sceptical McMorrin asked Rutley if he was \u201ccontent to believe Russia when they say they\u2019re just undertaking scientific action\u201d. The Labour MP also quoted expert testimony to the committee, stressing that leading polar geopolitician Professor Klaus Dodds had flagged the \u201ccurrent Russian activity\u201d<\/a> and its possible \u201cprospecting\u201d links as \u201ctroubling\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a worry that Russia is collecting seismic data that could be construed to be prospecting rather than scientific research. And, if such, does this signal a potential threat to the permanent ban on mining,\u201d asked Dodds<\/a>, of Royal Holloway, University of London, \u201cwith knock-on implications for the integrity of the protocol in its entirety?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly people might start paying attention to Antarctica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hat tip to @TomNelson<\/a> and @NetZeroWatch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the record, the  dispute between the UK and Argentina g<\/a>oes back a long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo:<\/strong>\u00a0LA(Phot)\u00a0Ian Simpson<\/a>\u00a0 of the HMS Portland in South Georgia in 2010 on\u00a0Wikimedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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