How do you set taxable value on a pipeline? By amortized construction costs, by annual value of the product(s) pumped trough it, or by some arbitrary criteria to suite your interest?
Here is my proposition of the opening page when one clics the forum tab to read or comment there. Hope that using your wisdom and accurate comment does not offend you and you will not make copyright claims
JUNE 24, 2026: Ny-Ålesund is a centre for international Arctic scientific research and environmental monitoring. Meteorologists here could mark the start of the summer season as the warmest on record.
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The deployment comes as China’s steadily expanding Arctic footprint has become an increasing strategic concern for Washington, with U.S. officials viewing Beijing’s scientific activities as having potential dual-use applications alongside research.
Greenland will be in grave danger again due to spread of Chinese noodles . We may soon see another wave of " we must take " Greeand in the name of national security and world balance.
This marks the first time a P-8 Poseidon has flown to the North Pole. The photograph was taken over the ice-covered waters north of Svalbard, where the aircraft’s crew looked down on the expedition cruise ship Ocean Albatros. Photo: Royal Air Force
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The Royal Air Force described the flight over the North Pole as a “milestone”, demonstrating the aircraft’s “capability and operational reach”.
The P-8A Poseidon is a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft. Similar aircraft are operated by both the Royal Norwegian Air Force and the United States Navy to monitor Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and the Barents Sea:
*The P-8 Poseidon can carry a variety of weapons: Torpedo, bomb and the Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile.*Photo: Thomas Nilsen
The RAF is currently deploying one P-8A Poseidon to Evenes Air Base, north of the Arctic Circle, where Norway’s fleet of five P-8 aircraft is based.
The North Pole mission formed part of Exercise Midnight Warrior.
Corroded oil drums and abandoned vehicle wreckage sit side by side at Ikateq, one of the pollution sites detailed in Politiken’s investigation of former U.S. bases in Greenland. (PVisit East Greenland (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rusted oil drums stretch across the tundra at Ikateq, the site of the former U.S. air base Bluie East Two on Greenland’s east coast, decades after American forces left in 1947. (Visit East Greenland CC BY-SA 4.0)
PS: Maybe cleaning up the mess from previous activity is required, before establishing new bases?
amerikanische Zivilisation und amerikanische Kultur.
They hate Russians but behave und think in the same way as homo-sovieticus erectus . Who left exactly the same shit in DDR und other eastern block military basis..
At least in the last of their occupied countries -Afganistan - they left appart from total destruction some workable military equipment used now in. مجاهد Mujahideenes military parades und sold on the black market.
The ice refuses to melt. Are we heading for a repeat of the dreaded Maunder Minimum which caused temperatures to plummet in the late 17th and early 18th centuries? The sun is heading towards a solar minimum … and that’s what warms the earth. Professor Valentina Zharkova on the Dellingpod is the Ukrainian-born Mathematician and Physicist who has been studying solar cycles and says the signs aren’t good.
Excellent move. Nobody from the whole bunch of nazi banderite lovers here will dare to challenge the findings of a famous ukrainian scientist.
According to recent gossip promulgated on some social media , the ancient ukrainian civilisation gave birth to the whole European civilisation and it was so ancient and so old ,that some claim they have domesticated dinosaurs as pets thanks to their enhanced telepathic powers unknown to other human subspecies.
China’s Sea Legend Shipping is preparing to turn the Northern Sea Route into a seasonal liner product, scheduling eight weekly container sailings between China and northern Europe from mid-August through late October. It would be the first regular weekly box service on the Russian-controlled Arctic corridor, moving beyond the demonstration voyages seen to date.