Best solution for defending Arctic sovereignty?

[Kakato]

This is off topic but to hit camp I would fly from lethbridge,calgary,edmonton and then winnipeg where I would overnight before off to Thompson,Churchill and a bunch of other towns.
anyways,I was waiting for my connector at Winnipeg one day and sitting in the sports bar across from the terminal and saw them filming "chilled in Miami" with Rene Zellweger.The winnipeg sun had a contest for the best pics of Rene and I sent them my vid and they posted it on their website and gave me journalist status.:roll:
Enjoy! She made my day.

YouTube - Fun at the Winnipeg airport

 

[Kakato]

The reason I started filming was the guy shoveling snow from the trailer into the snowblower,I thought it was odd.

 

[AnnaG]

The reason I started filming was the guy shoveling snow from the trailer into the snowblower,I thought it was odd.

All the manure spreaders of the local farms were busy? hehehe Brown snow anyone?

 

[GreenFish66]

good thread .. is always better info when U can get it from people who live there..Who know..

Good stories ,Ur ooozin of wisdom Kakato..

 

[AnnaG]

Defending the Arctic could be easy. We could always let loose a plague of those nasty ice-worms on them.

 

[AnnaG]

Here's a baby:

and here's a cranky Mum:

 

[L Gilbert]

Defending the Arctic could be easy. We could always let loose a plague of those nasty ice-worms on them.

rofl
Go figger. Everyone I know that mentioned ice worms was kidding. They usually say, "He (or she) isn't here. They went to Alaska to hunt ice worms". Sort of like sending someone off to find muffler bearings.

 

[Lou Garu]

Just going from personal experience after spending a few years there,the Inuit have the highest child suicide rate in the world and the people also have the highest voter turn out for elections in all of Canada.
They want to change things,deep ports and subs cruising the arctic are fallacies of peeps who havent been there.
The Rangers on their dog sleds with vintage ww2 british 303 rifles are the best bit of sovereghnity we have in the Arctic.
I truly think these folks want to be free of the government and the money that corrupts some of their elders and spawns nepotism and the handing out of the govt.cash.
I've seen the same thing all over Alta reserves and the territories,elders getting big payback from the govt. and then handed down to family.

This needs to stop,the corrupt need to be be charged and thrown in jail.

Nice thoughts ,bubba, but between the climate change and the drop in animal numbers , for them there is no going back.
they can stagnate , go forward on the things you fear , or have control wrested from them .

 

[Kakato]

Well i didnt see the climate change much except for the coldest winter 2 years ago and the locals and the guys up there doing the bear counts say the numbers arent bad,both the Beverly and Doroth caribou herds are still healthy,a few migration paths along the Thelon had to be fenced to get them crossing in a safer place so ya,thats about the only major climate change problem I saw.
It is a delicate balance though,a couple degrees warmer for a summer would change things.The permafrost only stays frozen because of the thin layer of insulating grass on it.Take that away and you will have huge meltage.

 

[GreenFish66]

want some info on climate change research ..

http://forums.canadiancontent.net/news/80933-green-technology-4.html

;-):smile: - Thankless self promotion

 

[Kakato]

I find most research on climate change to be biased but it keeps the grant money flowing.
Climate change is inevitable and theres nothing we can do to stop it.
I've also traveled north with lots of researchers and most only went as far as the last motel room.Some couldnt hack the cold and some didnt have arctic clothing so were denied getting on the choppers or otters.

 

[coldstream]

One thing we need to protect our Arctic Sovereignty is advanced submarines that can operate under the Arctic Ice. Not those clunkers we bought from Britain. But non nuclear boats like the German Type 212 U Boats. It's time we stopped buying junkyard cast offs from other navies.

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine

 

[Kakato]

We have nuclear tipped beluga whales under the ice,much cheaper.

 

[coldstream]

We have nuclear tipped beluga whales under the ice,much cheaper.

That about sais it for the Canadian Navy these days. :roll:

 

[AnnaG]

Yep. Don't bother discussing things with other countries, just blast them if they come near. Good plan. We put subs there, they all put subs there. No-one will start anything so there are all those expensive boats wandering around with nothing to do but suck more taxpayers' money. Genius.

 

[Kakato]

I still want to know what good heavy icebreakers will do up there but no ones answered so far.
For the price of one nuke sub we could have a whole whack of remote camps/bases in the eastern arctic,drilling and mapping our precious resources under the permafrost and establishing the fact that it's ours.
It would keep a good supply line open to the north and maybe they would stop having the yearly food and fuel shortages they have had the last few years.

 

[Liberalman]

Send immigration to the north for three years for their citizenship

 

[Kakato]

Send immigration to the north for three years for their citizenship

Didnt the last lib wannabe pm want to turn it into a national park?:roll:

 

[coldstream]

Yep. Don't bother discussing things with other countries, just blast them if they come near. Good plan. We put subs there, they all put subs there. No-one will start anything so there are all those expensive boats wandering around with nothing to do but suck more taxpayers' money. Genius.

That sounds very idealistic, and VERY naive. Nations that don't arm themselves put themselves in the gun sights and territorial ambitions of those that do. That's not very ideastic, but those are the lessons of history.

 

[Spade]

We could paint maple leaves on the ice floes. Great make-work project to ease the recession we inherited from our Yankee brothers!