Oil and gas giants to cash in on climate crisis they helped cause : Melting ice exposes new petroleum reservoirs in the Arctic worth $7TRILLION - in what is being dubbed a ’modern day gold rush’

As new land is exposed by melting ice caused by climate change, Arctic nations and corporations are poised to make trillions of dollars from newly exposed land and sea.

A new paper published in the journal Science has warned that melting areas in the Arctic have become ‘frontlines for resource extraction’, describing it as a ’modern day gold rush’.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that there are up to 90 billion barrels of oil undiscovered in the Arctic, with up to 84 percent of this in offshore areas.

Un #iceberg géant, de près de 4 000 kilomètres carrés, a commencé à se déplacer en #Antarctique (Reuters)
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2023/11/25/un-iceberg-geant-de-pres-de-4-000-kilometres-carres-a-commence-a-se-deplacer

Nommé « A23a », il s’agit d’un des plus grands icebergs du monde. Bloqué pendant trente ans, il a commencé à dériver sans que les scientifiques en connaissent la raison.

#climat #pétrole #ruée_vers_l'or