Introduction
As noted in the white paper on Norway s Arctic policy (the High North Report), maritime activities in the High North are expected to increase due to:
improved accessibility resulting from melting sea ice;
the high potential for increased commercial exploitation of marine and offshore resources; and
the successful marketing of the Arctic as a tourist destination.
With increased activities comes an increased risk of accidents. The remoteness, cold temperatures and vulnerability of the environment causes challenges for emergency response, including:
search and rescue (SAR);
salvage and wreck removal.
These additional risks must be taken into account by those operating in the area.
website to sequence everything. can t just deploy and shove everything in at the same time. for those that might be able to hear your voice, either now or later today, you have established benchmarks for your team to get things advanced in puerto rico. how can people there now things are progressing and how i know you want to improve the island. secondly, you talked about naval assets are. any other nasal assets contemplated or deployed? we have 16 ships that we haven t talked about in the media. we have 16 ships operating. that s the coast guard and our dod partners. ten ships in route over the next 48 continuing to bring generators, emergency power as well as more additional food and
is where do we begin, josh? let s do a little bit of both. what we had from allen and a little bit of what our viewers are talking about. i want to recap what he said. it was so interesting and important. he said they managed to collect 25,000 barrels yesterday. the reason that is so significant, that s a big judgment from what we were seeing the day before when they collected 18 thousand barrels. what he is talking about, they have two ships operating. international drill ship here. each of them is working differently. enterprise drillship collectses and the q4000 burns. the amount of oil is being collected in one day. that s a little bit of good news and will counterpoint what we have been hearing from the viewers. lot of them are very upset about the kind of stuff they were hearing yesterday out of bp. let s jump to our blog here. this is from our blog cnn.com/josh. i can t believe representative barton. how dare he apologize to bp? then turn around and condemn president obama for