How can this be a good idea? Meanwhile in the gulf there are still leaking wells. When do we learn?
Do you own an internal combustion engine? Does your Amazon delivery person? Your fire Dept? Police?
We are all complicit
Trump Administration Approves a Plan to Drill for Oil in the Arctic
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#12What's the danger here? A spill/leakage, or is there anything else?
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#13I thought international law prohibits any country from asserting ownership over the arctic?
The big boys are always above the law. Illegal wars, illegal anexations, "illegal" murders, price fixing(opec)...you name it. For a law to have any value it has be enforceable. Who will punish US? The EU states can barely agree to take action against Russia.
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#14I thought international law prohibits any country from asserting ownership over the arctic?
That's the Antarctic. The land parts of the Arctic are all divvied up.
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#15This seems a bit too mainstream-political for Hacker News, and the commentary thus far is pretty low-SNR.
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#16This seems a bit too mainstream-political for Hacker News, and the commentary thus far is pretty low-SNR.
That's true... This is not good enough for Hacker News. https://i.imgur.com/067nQps.png
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#17Who owns / controls the Arctic? Is it within American jurisdiction?
> Who owns / controls the Arctic?
All arctic coastal states: Russia, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada and the US.
> Is it within American jurisdiction?
Since this is 6 miles off the Alaskan coast, that's included within the US continental shelf, which goes up to 200 nautical miles.
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#18“Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries,” he said in a statement. “That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe.” We feel that when we swing our dick around, it’s not big enough. This will allow to have a bigger dick to swing around. I’m at a loss for a less cynical translation.
Russia regularly extorts European countries by threatening to cut off gas or raise prices. A big part of US foreign policy is guaranteeing energy security to our allies. The US is already nearly energy independent, due in part to the shale gas (“fracking”) boom. Increasing domestic production, along with the new policy of allowing exports to our allies, will do a lot to lessen Russia’s power.
So yes, it’s about carrying an even bigger stick. But it’s our stick or Russia’s stick. Our allies would much rather depend on America than Russia.
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#19“Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries,” he said in a statement. “That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe.” We feel that when we swing our dick around, it’s not big enough. This will allow to have a bigger dick to swing around. I’m at a loss for a less cynical translation.
Less cynical translation: responsibly developing our resources will make us less reliant on countries like Saudi Arabia, which murdered a journalist, and whose resources have since been branded ‘blood money’
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#20“Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries,” he said in a statement. “That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe.” We feel that when we swing our dick around, it’s not big enough. This will allow to have a bigger dick to swing around. I’m at a loss for a less cynical translation.
That was ultimately my opinion in the real social political reason US waged war against Iraq; the people pushing it thought we will win this war, everything will be great, and after we will walk around Washington with a big swinging dick.