{"id":199310,"date":"2007-08-14T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/the-rush-for-arctic-resources-begins\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T10:18:00","slug":"the-rush-for-arctic-resources-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/the-rush-for-arctic-resources-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rush for Arctic Resources Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Russians planted a flag on the sea bed at the North Pole, it was inevitable that some sort of scramble for the arctic regions would commence.  Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/navy\/Canada_to_build_first_Arctic_military_base120012904.php\">Canada is building a deep water port facility on Baffin Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are two things driving this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is believed that 25% of untapped oil and gas reserves are there.<\/li>\n<li>The Canadians in particular are banking on global warming to make the Northwest passage viable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Russians planted a flag on the sea bed at the North Pole, it was inevitable that some sort of scramble for the arctic regions would commence. Now Canada is building a deep water port facility on Baffin Island. There are two things driving this: It is believed that 25% of untapped oil and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}