"It is a Middle East-like situation in very superficial terms -- just that no one is killing each other over it," a former oil executive said on the sidelines of the Arctic Frontiers conclave in Troms??, Norway, a town of 72,000 inhabitants 350km inside the Arctic Circle. And it is international law that is coming out as the big winner in "disputes" over continental shelf extensions between states like Canada and Russia, with the US also being a major influence via its Arctic coastline in Alaska.
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