The shipping news part II: How Canada's Arctic sovereignty is on thinning ice

International Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-308

  Huebert, Rob ^a,b  

^a Department of Political Science ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 0742288952     PISSN: 00207020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002070200305800304     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. A few, among many, of his works include Politics of the Northwest Passage (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1987), Arctic Alternatives: Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North (Toronto: Science for Peace 1992), and A Northern Foreign Policy (Toronto: CIIA 1979) for which he was editor.
2. A few, among many, of his works include Politics of the Northwest Passage (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1987), Arctic Alternatives: Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North (Toronto: Science for Peace 1992), and A Northern Foreign Policy (Toronto: CIIA 1979) for which he was editor.
3. A few, among many, of his works include Politics of the Northwest Passage (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 1987), Arctic Alternatives: Civility or Militarism in the Circumpolar North (Toronto: Science for Peace 1992), and A Northern Foreign Policy (Toronto: CIIA 1979) for which he was editor.
4. "Arctic authority at stake," The Globe and Mail, 13 June 1985; and "Time to seek deal with the United States," The Globe and Mail, 10 November 1987.
5. "Arctic authority at stake," The Globe and Mail, 13 June 1985; and "Time to seek deal with the United States," The Globe and Mail, 10 November 1987.
6. For one of the best considerations of the modern meaning of sovereignty, see Kim Nossal, The Patterns of World Politics (Scarborough: Prentice-Hall 1998), 227-281.
7. Richard A. Kerr, "A warmer Arctic means change for all," Science 297(30 August 2002), 1490-2.
8. J.C. Comiso, "A rapidly declining perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic," Geophysical Research Letters 29 (no. 20, 15 October 2002), 17.1-17.4.
9. J. Morison and K. Aagaard, "Recent environmental changes In the Arctic: a review," Arctic 53 (no. 4, December 2000), 359-371.
10. NSERC and SSHRC, From Crisis to Opportunity: Rebuilding Canada's Role In Northern Research: Final Report to NSERC from the Task Force on Northern Research (Ottawa: NSEC and SSHRC 2000), 15-18.
11. Networks of Excellence, News Release, 26 August 2003, "Government of Canada takes major steps in advancing research in the Arctic," available at http://www.nce.gc/media/newsrel/2003/260803_e.htm.
12. Terry Fenge, "The Inuit and climate change," Isuma 2 (no. 4, winter 2001), 81-84. For an excellent study using TEK, see Miriam McDonald, Voices from the Bay: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion (Ottawa: CARC 1997), 1-98.
13. Terry Fenge, "The inult and climate change," Isuma 2 (no. 4, winter 2001), 81-84. For an excellent study using TEK, see Miriam McDonald, Voices from the Bay: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion (Ottawa: CARC 1997), 1-98.
14. Allison Doyle, "Shrinking Arctic ice to open shipping short-cuts," Reuters News Service 28, (January 2003), available at http://Planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19593/story.htm.
15. R.R. Churchill and A.V. Lowe, The Law of the Sea (2nd ed; Manchester: Manchester University Press 1985), 87-89.
16. Donat Pharand, Canada's Arctic Waters in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988), 230.
17. Colin M. de la Rue and Charles Anderson, Shipping and the environment: law and practise (London: LLP 1998).
18. "Crippled fuel oil tanker sinks," CNN.com, 20 November 2002, available at http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/19/spain.oil/.
19. Peter Ford, "Why aging tankers still ply the seas," Christian Science Monitor (21 November 2002), available at http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1121/p01s01-woeu.html.
20. "Canada port gains as ice diminishes," New York Times, 3 November 2000.
21. Shipping report for Churchill, Manitoba for the 2000 Navigation Season (May 2001), available at http://www.vaxxine.com/jcameron/churchill2000.htm.
22. Leonid Timchenko, "The Northern Sea Route: Russian management and jurisdiction over navigation in Arctic seas," in Alex Elferink and Donald Rothwell, eds, The Law of the Sea and Polar Maritime Delimitation and Jurisdiction (The Hague: Kluwer Law International 2001), 269-292.
23. Murmansk Shipping Company, Fleet 2000, available at http://www.msco.ru/web_main/en/company.htm.
24. Brian Gavin, "Polar tankers: built to last in unforgiving waters," American Ship Review 2002-2003 68, 20-24.
25. Rob Huebert, "Climate change and Canadian sovereignty in the Northwest Passage," Isumo 2 (no. 4, winter 2001), 87.
26. Rob Huebert, "Polar vision or tunnel vision: the making of Canadian Arctic policy," Marine Policy 19 (no. 4, 1995), 356-360.
27. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, transcript of press conference of during visit to Yellowknife, 13 May 2003, on file with author.
28. Northern and Indian Affairs Canada, The Arctic Environmental Strategy: Five Years of Progress (Ottawa: Indian and Northern Affairs 1996).
29. A point made very clear in the most recent Senate examination of Canadian security. See Senate of Canada, Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence, Canada's Coastlines: The Longest Under-Defended Boarders in the World (Ottawa: October 2003), 23-24; 77-90.