Die USA erweitern ihre Ansprüche auf den Meeresboden um eine Fläche, die doppelt so groß ist wie Kalifornien, und sichern sich damit Rechte an potenziell ressourcenreichen Meeresböden

by green_flash

27 comments

  1. Tough luck USA, I already claimed that ocean floor myself.

  2. > “It’s US sovereignty over the seabed floor, and so whether it’s **seabed mining**, or **oil and gas leasing**, or cables, or what have you, the US is announcing the borders of its ECS and will have sovereignty over those decisions.”

    At least they didn’t announced it a few weeks ago during the COP28. It would have looked bad.

  3. Canada best stand up for itself, looks like they’ve taken some of their yard

  4. Could you imagine the balls on the country that would try anything that close to US soil?

    Even the notorious Chinese fishing fleet knows better.

  6. This is a position that could be considered quite aggressive to others. Though I’m not sure another country wouldn’t do the same.

  8. Not that anyone is really in a position to dispute it, but is there a legal justification for these claims? I thought these matters were defined based on distance from land by international law, and nations couldn’t just claim international waters.

  9. Russia, China and others are doing similar things. The claims don’t matter unless they are contested, and the primary ones the US would be upset about are China and Russia.

    Anyone else would send the US a note saying “we are drilling here.” China would drill, then claim a 12 mile radius around their sovereign holding.

  11. Inb4 the conspiracy theorists start coming up with the wild claims of seabed weapons and Cthulhu

  12. So I guess the US is thus okay with Canada doing the same with all of our northern territory? Such as the northwest passage?

  13. This makes the US look hypocritical as usual, doing what it criticizes others for doing.

  16. This would stop other gov’ts from drilling around the Aleutian Islands, for one. I don’t have a problem with that

  17. Seems good to me. Looks like it’s not encroaching on any other country and no one else has a better claim to it. Plus no one could stop us if they did

  19. These are resources for batteries and chips and such right?

  20. Why does the Alaska Yukon line tilt so dramatically off the coast lol

  21. They have reaped the land and are now working to ravage our oceans

  22. Oh so it’s bad when China does it but fine when usa does it

  25. If China is doing it, I don’t see why we can’t either.

  26. Can we do that under international maritime law? It’s gonna be real hard to make arguments against china doing similar with the china sea.

  27. The seabeds have valuable resources? Sounds like those seabeds need some freedom.

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