Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region
Russia has found vast oil and gas reserves in the Antarctic, much of it in areas claimed by the UK.
The surveys are a prelude to bringing in drilling rigs to exploit the pristine region for fossil fuels, MPs have warned.
Reserves totalling 511bn barrels of oil – about 10 times the North Sea’s entire 50-year output – have been reported to Moscow by Russian research ships, according to evidence given to the Commons Environment Audit Committee (EAC) last week.
It follows a series of surveys by the Alexander Karpinsky vessel, operated by Rosgeo – the Russian agency charged with finding mineral reserves for commercial exploitation.
Antarctica is meant to be protected by the 1959 Antarctic Treaty that bans all mineral or oil developments. The UK’s interests are overseen by the Foreign Office – but it has been accused of ignoring the emerging crisis.
Why are people doing resource exploration in protected areas? >___>
Yeah they should have never been allowed to search there in the first place.
what’s 500 billion times $78?
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I’m not saying it’s a bad move, but that won’t stop drilling.
The effort should be aimed at destroying the oil industry.
Mfw u say Russia is cancer but USA isn’t
That feeling when you’re so brain fucked by the cold war actions of the U.S that the Authoritarian reactionary hellscape is good apparently.
Pay no mind to the effect this will have on climate change if they decided to plunder this crap
If we were to burn another 500 billion barrels of oil, it would be game over for the planet.
you have to start thinking quarterly. Imagine the quarterly profits
Screw the planet, just think of all the profit. ~ Oil exes probably
is it possible they found none but seek a way to attract investments ?
just great
Aren’t Russian speakers opressed in the British antartic territories?
Tally ho, time for the RN to sail to
the FalklandsAntarctica!You pretty much had it right the first time. The Falklands would likely be used as a staging area, being the closest British or allied territory to the part of Antarctica in question.
True, although with Milei being as unpredictable as he is, maybe he’d offer a port for this venture.
Why do they care? They want solar panels and wind turbines. Fossil fuels are killing people.
Russia is happy with a warmer world. Their land will become more temperate, they’ll get a shipping passage up north. And of course the oligarchy will get richer. Gazprom their state owned and run oil and gas companies is one of Russia’s main economic drivers.
