The big picture: Environmental challenges in the Arctic
The Arctic – Europe’s last wilderness
In extreme change – Do EU have a role in the Arctic?
Bellona seminar in Tromsø
Næringslivets hus
Wednesday 21st January 2015
Sigurd Enge
Bellona in the Arctic
The Seven “Plagues” of the Arctic
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Climate changes
Acidification
Transboundary pollutants
Radioactive contamination
Petroleum and mining industry
Shipping
Invasive species
Who is going to save the Arctic
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Arctic Council?
UNCLOS – Law of the Seas?
IMO - Polarcode?
The peole of Arctic?
China, India og Singapore?
The whole world?
Norway?
EU?
The role of The European Union in the Arctic
What instruments do EU have to influence Arctic
policy?
 EU is a consumer of Arctic products
 EU is a contributor in research and development
 Norway is a part of European Economic Area
 EU is committed to the climate
challenges
 EU have experience to getting
nations to agree
EU should enter as an observer
to the Arctic Council!
Arctic Shipping
 Air Emissions accelerates ice and snow
melting and increases footprint
 No documented method to recover oil in ice
 Use of LNG propulsion will eliminate both
soot and the risk of oil spills
 Hybridelectric propulsion is real
Arctic waters is the place to apply new
technology
 Nansen used windmills to produce electricity.
Petroleum was to space consuming!
 We want to go in Nansens footsteps!
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Petroleum Activity in
Arctic Waters
Risk = probability x consequences
The consequences have a big potential
Soot emission colors the ice darker
Discharge of produced water with
unknown impact
• Arctic oil is expensive to extract
• If some oil should stay in ground – Arctic oil?
• Norway is battling for the ice edge just now
Saturn – November 2014
The Arctic needs limits and minimum standards Pechora sea - Russia
Kulluk – 2012
Alaska - USA
Kolskaya – 2011
Sakhalin - Russia
Scarabeo 8 – 2012
Barents sea - Norway
How to develop a sustainable Arctic
Big challenges demands smart and brave solutions
Bellona-report: Sustainable solutions for business activities in the Arctic
Supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sustainable:
• Energy production
• Mining
• Integrated aquaculture
Coal powerplant
In Barentsburg
Uranium mines
on Greenland
Ocean Space Senter
”It is likely that something unlikely will happen"
Aristoteles, year 384 - 322 BC
Hold matfatet rent!
Takk for oppmerksomheten
Sigurd
Enge clean!
Keep the
Arctic
Miljøstiftelsen Bellona
Thanks for your attention!
Sigurd Enge
Bellona Foundation
[email protected]