Who Owns the Arctic?: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
Michael Byers
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1553654994
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
musk-ox, buffalo, wapiti, or elk. These prohibitions apply to all persons, including Canadian nationals. Significantly, non-aboriginals were prohibited not just from hunting and trapping in the High Arctic but from all commercial activities there. The letter from the British chargé d’affaires concluded with a conciliatory but meaningless offer: Should, however, the regulations be altered at any time in the future, His Majesty’s Government in Canada would treat with the most friendly
related to those claims rather than misdirecting the Canadian public.” A similar sentiment was concurrently expressed by four Canadian historians and political scientists. In their book Arctic Front, Ken Coates, Whitney Lackenbauer, William Morrison and Greg Poelzer wrote: An Arctic strategy based on current headlines will not work. Today’s threats relate to boundaries and resources. Tomorrow, environmental considerations will likely dominate the news, followed by accounts of further
everything through the terrorism prism. Our top priority is to stop the terrorists. So perhaps when this is brought to the table again, we may have to take another look.” Five months later, Cellucci revealed that he had asked the State Department to re-examine the U.S. position in light of the terrorist threat. And in October 2006, the by-then former ambassador made his personal views clear: “It is in the security interests of the United States that it [ the Northwest Passage ] be under the
breaking ice for commercial vessels — including foreign ones. The Coast Guard already breaks ice for cargo ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Saguenay River during the winter months. A new icebreaker in Hudson Bay could add months to the shipping season at Churchill. Additional icebreakers could ensure safe transits for commercial vessels through the Northwest Passage, initially for three or four months, and before long throughout the year. Arctic hubs for the transportation of goods to
resource management regime.” More pointedly, the Protocol specifies: “The parties acknowledge that it is the position of the GN and NTI that the ultimate objective of devolution is the transfer of administration and control in respect of Crown lands and resources in all areas, both onshore and in the seabed.” It also specifies: “The parties further acknowledge that it is the position of the GN and NTI that a devolution agreement should make no distinction between resource management regimes