Help is on the way:
Melting glaciers leave behind a material that COULD be a valuable export for Greenland;
For simplicity:
Follow on to my post in Greetings from Norway re;Longyearbyen today:
The other major settlement on Svalbard is the Russian mining town Barentsburg, which is also slowly changing into a tourist and research centre. Both places have coal fired powered plants at the moment.
The present power station in Longyearbyen will be shut down in 2023 and the Russians are planning to upgrade the one in Barentsburg:
The plan for Longyearbyen is to operate a diesel driven power station initially, until a more permanent solution is found.
Green Ammonia from Finnmark is a likely energy source in the future:
Russia is developing a major oil export terminal on the Taymyr Peninsula:
Mail by drone is coming:
But supply by ship is more difficult:
The drilling season in Russian Arctic waters is over for this year, which has been busy, with rigs being brought in from all over the world to drill for oil & gas offshore:
All this activity is good for the HLV fleet transporting the rigs and for support vessels of all kinds to service the operations.
It is not always good for the indigenous people of the North, who are trying to protect their traditional way of life and culture:
PS> The same applies to indigenous people all over the Arctic and beyond.
The nine ships stuck in ice for a month have been freed at last:
Everybody have a story about slow roadwork, but this take the cake (I think??):
Svalbard is in the news for it’s strategic importance again:
Global warming is changing the geography in the Arctic:
Eventually Greenland may loose it’s status as the world’s largest island:
Since the 1950s, scientists have postulated that the ice sheet covering the country may actually conceal three separate island land masses that have been bridged by glaciers over the last geologic cooling period
-59C, that is COOOOLD!!!:
No, a cold snap in Dec. doesn’t mean that there are no global waring in the Arctic.
There was a heat wave in May:
Heat waves are not uncommon. The Sami people living in Finnmark traditionally used to dress up against the heat of summer as well as the cold of winter.
So do the Tuaregs in the Sahara:
Melting permafrost is more of a problem for the people living there than a bit of cold. (They are prepared for that):
That is it for this year:
Arctic Report Card 2021:
US is spending more on defence in the Arctic:
But less on diplomacy and environment, which is also important for security in the region.
Meanwhile, things are happening on the Kola Peninsula:
No, it has nothing to do with Tesla and Elon Musk.
Russian Arctic is shrinking:
USS New Mexico visit Tromsø:
The cat and mouse game is still going on in Arctic waters.
PS> Hope they know where the seamounts are.