The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red

While the implications of this for The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red: Implications for Canada and Russia in an Evolving Polar Region Page 1 by Ron R. Wallace January 2019 The Arctic is Warming and Turning Red: Implications for Canada and Russia. [...] The Department of the Interior subsequently announced plans to offer offshore leases for Arctic oil and gas exploration with access to previously inaccessible acreages and overturned the indefinite drilling bans in much of the Arctic Ocean announced during the final days of the Obama administration. [...] The Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (now the Canadian Global Affairs Institute) had an early involvement in examining Russian-Canadian interests in the Arctic during the rise of the Putin presidency, including the Yamal development. [...] Wright42 and Dolata43 have chronicled the developing Chinese presence in, and their attentions paid to, the Arctic, with the parallel observation (by Dolata) that fortunately tensions related to the Russian annexation of Crimea appear not to have “substantially affected co-operation in the Arctic Council.” Canadian Arctic Perspectives While the importance of a viable and capable icebreaking fleet [...] Combined with potential Chinese interest to access the Canadian Passage as a possible shortcut for Pacific to Atlantic commercial commerce, these facts present new challenges for Canadian Arctic interests: With the rising Russian military threat in the Arctic, melting Arctic ice and the possibilities of Chinese and other cargo ships using the Passage to shorten the route between Asia and Europe –