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Robotic Underwater Vehicles to Help Canada Map Arctic Seabed

Posted November 14, 2008 9:32 AM

From CBC | Technology & Science News:

The Canadian government will move ahead with plans to use autonomous underwater vehicles to help map the eastern Arctic seabed, research officials say. The robotic vehicles will be used starting in the spring of 2010 for mapping research that could extend Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, said Jacob Verhoef, director of Canada's mapping efforts for Natural Resources Canada.

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Re: Robotic Underwater Vehicles to Help Canada Map Arctic Seabed

11/14/2008 7:36 PM

This is a delayed, somewhat friendly, 21th-century-type reaction, to the new gold-rush: The race to stake claims in the arctic zone, for future oil extraction.
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Re: Robotic Underwater Vehicles to Help Canada Map Arctic Seabed

12/01/2008 12:55 AM

Read also the related Article:

Military expertise put to work in Canada's Arctic mapping research

That shows the cosy alliance between Big Business, Military and Politicians.

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