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I’ve read about finding really old water under Antarctica, and hoping they wouldn’t pollute it. Given that they’re now saying it’s oil, that’s going to cause a lot of focus here– and I wonder what it means to all the environmentalists.
Deep beneath the harsh wasteland of the Antarctic shelf lies a prize hundreds of millions of years in the making. For more than 150 years, wars have been fought for access to oil, the thick, black ooze that the world has come to rely on. Despite the growth of renewable energy in recent years, almost all of the world’s energy, 84% as of 2020, runs on fossil fuels, including oil and gas.
And with the Russian discovery of an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil and gas in the Antarctic, the race for Black Gold is on once again, as nations across the world claiming they alone own the land above the fossil fuel reserve, even though a historic treaty prevents anyone from accessing it.
But experts have warned that Russia and China should not be trusted and that the West ought to make preparations to prevent them from getting their hands on it. Russia’s discovery underneath the Antarctic is already starting to spook the West, with the issue being brought up at a Select Committee this week.
Unlocking Antarctica – Vox Popoli
Or do you believe they’re concealing something else down there?
