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Melting Arctic ice will mean more pirate chases, say COP19 organisers

2013-10-10 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Melting ice could open the Arctic to new drilling and the opportunity to "chase pirates, terrorists and ecologists", according to the organisers of this year's UN climate talks in Poland, in comments that have been branded outrageous by campaigners. The blogpost, published this week on the Polish site for November's Warsaw meeting, said that not only would melting ice allow ships to cut their journey times by taking the north-west passage, but "we may also build new drilling platforms and retrieve...

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