To reduce America's dependence on foreign sources of oil, Huckabee would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the continental shelves to drilling.

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Encouraged by Arctic governments and dwindling reserves elsewhere, oil companies are flocking north like migrating geese to explore the continental shelves of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia.

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Neither UNCLOS nor the Convention on Biological Diversity regulates the use of living resources found beyond continental shelves or Exclusive Economic Zones. (Within these Zones, the related provisions of UNCLOS, which favour essentially national interests, would apply.) Living resources in the deep seabed were unknown when UNCLOS was being negotiated.

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Every retailer I have passed is primed to sell it and the shelves were nearly empty in one continental chain two hours before an official launch event.

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