A Drop in the Ocean. Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic
This article investigates the Arctic Council’s new Agreement on the response to marine oil pollution in the Arctic Region. The Agreement is evaluated in the light of the challenges of responding to marine oil pollution in the Arctic, and in light of the international legal framework for oil spill re...
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ftjarlp:oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/1047 2023-10-25T01:32:52+02:00 A Drop in the Ocean. Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic Lauta, Kristian Cedervall 2017-10-26 application/pdf https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1047 https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v5.1047 eng eng University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Faculty of Law https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1047/2062 https://arcticreview.no/index.php/arctic/article/view/1047 doi:10.23865/arctic.v5.1047 Copyright (c) 2017 Arctic Review https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Arctic Review on Law and Politics; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014) 2387-4562 Arctic pollution preparedness response emergency oil spill Disaster Law “International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness Response and Co-operation” info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftjarlp https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v5.1047 2023-09-27T22:52:26Z This article investigates the Arctic Council’s new Agreement on the response to marine oil pollution in the Arctic Region. The Agreement is evaluated in the light of the challenges of responding to marine oil pollution in the Arctic, and in light of the international legal framework for oil spill response currently in place. Based upon this, the article concludes that the Agreement, rather than being considered an innovative new legal tool, properly is best understood as a symbolic token of the Arctic Council’s willingness to discuss the problems associated with the present plans on resource exploitation in the Arctic. If, however, the Arctic Council sets out to establish an effective legal governance regime to the challenges of responding to a serious oil spill in the Arctic, the Agreement is, as the title suggests, merely a drop in the ocean. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Council Arctic Arctic pollution Arctic review on law and politics Arctic Review on Law and Politics Arctic Arctic Review on Law and Politics 5 2 |
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This article investigates the Arctic Council’s new Agreement on the response to marine oil pollution in the Arctic Region. The Agreement is evaluated in the light of the challenges of responding to marine oil pollution in the Arctic, and in light of the international legal framework for oil spill response currently in place. Based upon this, the article concludes that the Agreement, rather than being considered an innovative new legal tool, properly is best understood as a symbolic token of the Arctic Council’s willingness to discuss the problems associated with the present plans on resource exploitation in the Arctic. If, however, the Arctic Council sets out to establish an effective legal governance regime to the challenges of responding to a serious oil spill in the Arctic, the Agreement is, as the title suggests, merely a drop in the ocean. |
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