Noted a few days ago that the possibility that the arctic might become virtually ice free raises the potential that currently uneconomic oil reserves become available for exploitation. This article ponders the irony further.
Of course the questions about whether the artic ocean would really be so navigable is moot, but I suspect that won't stop a whole raft of people ignoring the environmental consequences and seeing it as a further pushing on of the date for peak oil ...
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