Great.  But we knew this was coming, didn’t we?  Think there’s PR problems already with the Canadian oil sands?  Better watch out for this one.

The countries involved, of course, are Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the U.S.  But I wonder if any of the residents of the Arctic will be present at any of these meetings.  I also wonder, if this develops further, if it will finally put an end to global-warming agnostics (antagonists?).  It was just last week that the polar bear was added to the list of endangered species.

Ah, what is it with contexts and the average (closed-in, context-bound) human mind?  Maybe we can start chipping away at what’s left of the Antarctic and export that ice back up to the Arctic once all the drilling is done.