Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/#:~:text=Russia%20has%20found%20vast%20oil,fossil%20fuels%2C%20MPs%20have%20warned
by Calm_Error153
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>Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region
Cant wait to see them exploit it and then sell it back to us at higher prices!
Edit: Looking at how many downvotes the post got, I guess the russian shills are on it again.
**We could build a sovereign wealth fund like the Norwegians did in the 90s or we could leave it in the ground! How can you be against it people?**
Once all the ice melts it should be nice and easy to get it out
Here we go…
Can’t we just have one bit of land we don’t completely destroy.
It’s not as if Russia doesn’t have enough already
“Russia has recently reaffirmed its commitment to the key elements of the treaty.” I remember similar reassurances in ’39.
Why is Russia finding stuff in the British Antarctic?
I think Britain’s own environmentalists would be a greater obstacle to exploring these reserves than Russia.
If the UK tries to tap this, it would probably kickoff another war with Argentina and/Chile, since the area of [Antarctica Britain claims is disputed by those countries.](https://discoveringantarctica.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/governed_claims1.png)
Next in the news, Russian speaking residents in Antarctica feel threatened and Russia needs to send troops south to carry out a special operation to protect the residents against Nazi penguins..
Apparently we going off fossil fuels, all solar and wind power , they can keep it, right??
Suddenly, ethnic Russians in the area will be requesting Moscow’s protection from the British Antarctic authorities.
And if Russia doesn’t exploit the resources, what’s saying someone else wont give it a go?
Even if there is more oil than all of Saudi. For the sake of the climate. We cannot drill it. Any country idiotic enough to try it needs to have their vessels torpedoed and sunk.
The planet is fucked enough without further oil reserves being flared. Right below the ozone hole. Fuck Russia and fuck any country that tries it.
Looks like they’ll claim it whilst blaming us for it and er…
erm….
I guess, we can lob a used teabag at them and clone James Cordon then flood Russia with Cordon. Then once Cordon has annoyed them, we send them an army of Piers Morgans. Then once they beg us to stop. We’ll laugh.