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It's not possible to 'mine' the North Pole as ummm... there is No Land.

There is also no viable way to suck the oil out of the top of the world as it gets 160 degrees below zero with hurricane type winds in winter. It's also not possible for an oil rig to survive by the way... or to drill through the pack ice as it is so thick and so deep.

therefore we wouldn't hear the jealousy they spew towards us

Even if the Arctic resources are divided according to the Russsian plan rather than the UN plan it doesn't represent a significant impact on Canadian claims. The only ones who lose out are the US and, too a much smaller degree, Denmark. I'm not sure what it is that we have to be jealous about.

I don't see any big reason for Canada to be bothered by this. The area claimed by the Russian expedition isn't part of the Canadian claim. Besides, we have a good history with Russia on resource issues, shared Canadian expertise in oil and gas exploration and management is a part of the reason Russia grew to become the worlds largest natural gas exporter in the world in the 90's.

We have the Glomar that can get there. We have 4 huge Ice cutters that can get there, and we have about 5 subs sitting under the ice pack as we speak.
Of course we can get there.

...Russia says the mission is intended to show that the Lomonosov ridge, a 1,800-kilometer underwater mountain range that extends under the Arctic to near the pole, is a geological extension of Russian territory.

It denied it was a land grab.

"The aim of this expedition is not to stake Russia's claim but to show that our shelf reaches to the North Pole," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Manila, where he is attending a regional security conference.

The Mir-1 submersible reached the seabed at 1208 Moscow time (0808 GMT) and returned to the surface exactly six hours later.

A second Russian submersible, manned by Swedish businessman Frederik Paulsen and Australian adventurer Mike McDowell, reached the seabed 27 minutes later. It reached a depth of 4,302 meters.

Soviet and U.S. nuclear submarines have often traveled under the polar icecap, but until Thursday none had reached the seabed under the pole.

Russia is making the claim because of a "finger" of the continental shelf that extends from northern Russia to the Canadian Arctic

Does no one see what I see happening? I can only hope that I will not be alive to see it happen, but, the world is heading for an inevitable OIL WAR/WW3 the States have already begun their claim Do not think that they will not shed blood for the biggest oil reserves, because Bush has already started that in Iraq.

can't see why they don't simply put a pumping station under the water

The reports said the find means Russia could potentially claim an area the size of Germany, France and Italy combined, which may contain up to 10 billion cubic meters of hydrocarbons, along with diamonds and metal ores...

...Experts say global warming is opening up the Arctic to new economic pressures, as receding ice exposes new areas of ocean and tundra to exploration and ice-free zones result in shorter shipping lanes

The sea bed isn't all that far from the surface up north....it is a shallow area (not like some of the trenches where there is a mile of water between surface and bottom!)

It reached a depth of 4,302 meters

How do you figure the USA would lose something with nothing to start with in that area, what would that be? Assumption isn't always correct my friend.

Any Oil Company could drill at the North Pole, they just don't have the technology to do it. The North Pole can't belong to any country as ummm... there is NO land there.

mungojoe?

We are all getting tired of moonbats screaming big oil and bush co.

Any Oil Company could drill at the North Pole, they just don't have the technology to do it. The North Pole can't belong to any country as ummm... there is NO land there.

but no one has mentioned the significance of the opening of the NW Passage;

Possible future claims
It was stated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on March 25, 2007, that riches are waiting the shipping industry due to Arctic climate change. This economic sector could be transformed similar to the way the middle east was by the Suez Canal in the 19th century. There will be a race among nations for oil, fish, diamonds and shipping routes, accelerated by the impact of global warming.

The potential value of the North Pole and the surrounding area resides not so much in shipping itself but in the possibility that lucrative petroleum and natural gas reserves exist below the sea floor. Such reserves are known to exist under the Beaufort Sea, and further exploration elsewhere in the Arctic might become more feasible if global warming opens up the Northwest Passage as a regular channel of international shipping and commerce, particularly if Canada is not able to enforce its claim to it.

The potential value of the North Pole and the surrounding area resides not so much in shipping itself but in the possibility that lucrative petroleum and natural gas reserves exist below the sea floor. Such reserves are known to exist under the Beaufort Sea,

The North Slope oil reserves are nothing? Big Oil and Bush Co. would certainly disagree with you there

One in fact is Destin Dome, off of Pensacola Florida. It's estimated that just that area could supply half of USA's natural gas for years (100+) . It's reputed to produce three trillion tons of gas per month.

We are buying from elsewhere here and there