Legal regulation of prevention and eleimintaion of oil spill incidents in the arctic region
| Autor | Alexandra V. Kripakova |
| Cargo | Far Eastern Federal University |
| Páginas | 24-32 |
Periódico do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Gênero e Direito
Centro de Ciências Jurídicas - Universidade Federal da Paraíba
V. 9 - Nº 03 - Ano 2020 Special Edition
ISSN | 2179-7137 | http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/ged/index
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LEGAL REGULATION OF PREVENTION AND ELEIMINTAION
OF OIL SPILL INCIDENTS IN THE ARCTIC REGION
Alexandra V. Kripakova1
Abstract: Nowadays, as the significance
of the Arctic is increasing, the
international community faces new
challenges. At the present time, Arctic
states (Russia, USA, Canada, Denmark
and Norway) continue to prepare to the
beginning of the large-scale oil and gas
resource development of the Arctic
offshore. However, discovering and
exploitation of the hydrocarbon deposits
endanger the fragile ecosystem of the
region. In this type of economic activity,
oil spills present the greatest hazard to
the environment. The article considers
activity of the Arctic Council in this area,
as well as the international and national
legal regulatory mechanisms to ensure
environmental security in the Arctic.
Keywords: Arctic, oil spills,
environmental security, Arctic Council
1. Introduction
Modern world is extremely dependent on
oil. For this reason, oil companies
continue to move into the little-
1 Far Eastern Federal University, avkripakova@mail.ru Phone number: +7-964-438-96-30
developed areas of the Arctic region
looking for the last drops of oil and
ignoring hazards that oil and gas
reclamation poses to the fragile Arctic
nature.
For how long is the Arctic region to
remain one of the cleanest places on
earth? What will happen when extraction
of oil leaves the level of the first timid
attempts to develop recently discovered
fields and moves to the international
industrial level of petroleum products
turnover? Will the unique, and,
consequently, especially vulnerable
ecosystem of the Arctic region outlast for
long without an appropriate interference
into the support of ecological safety?
These issues move to the forefront in
parallel with the growth of the Arctic
region energy potential evaluation.
Arctic states and big oil companies
are engaged, with all their might, in the
development of work plans aimed at
increasing oil production in the Arctic
region and proceed gradually to their
immediate realization. In this sphere,
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