Cold War Cleaner technology to justify Arctic oil race

摘要

Where the Russians lead, the Americans follow; where the Americans lead, the Russians follow. The new cold war for the 21 st century has barely begun in the vicious climate of the Arctic circle. It is a scramble to extract the greatest share of hydrocarbons located under the seabed in the second most hostile place on the planet.This underground fuel accounts for 13% (90 billion barrels of oil and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids) of undiscovered oil on the planet, according to US Geological survey estimates in 2008. Professor Alistair Fraser, geologist at Imperial College, London University, believes the Russians are creating a menace from dangerous and dirty technology used to get at more of the stuff more quickly.