Warmer Waters: Melting ice opens the Canadian arctic to new commercial opportunities. Can the government keep control?

摘要

The Canadian arctic may be a vast, cold place, populated more by polar bears and seals than by people. But underneath all that ice lies money — in one form or another. Money in the form of oil and natural gas, some think, or diamonds, or commercial fishing, or as a shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. And all this money that for so long has been locked up underneath the ice may finally be reachable, because the ice in the Canadian arctic — as elsewhere — is melting.