As the race to stake claims for future oil drilling in the Arctic takes off in anticipation of an ice - free region sooner rather than later, and as oil companies and Congress members continue to push for the US to drill in the Arctic, here are some sobering words from the head of the Coast Guard on how woefully unprepared the US is to deal with an oil spill there (h /
t Climate Progress).
Kenneth F. Drinkwater, Institute of Marine Research and Bjerknes Center for
Climate Research, P.O. Box 1870 Nordnes, N - 5817 Bergen, Norway,
Progress in Ocenography, Feb - March 2006 [H /
t Kenneth Towe]