北冰洋石油争夺战一触即发

    加拿大演讲者阿诺•凯诺能——造船工程师兼船舶技师——说：“概括一下北冰洋开拓？它充满挑战，或许还很危险，成本高昂，但可以完成。相当长时间内我们都有得忙了。”

    我在外面走廊上遇上了两位美国海岸警卫队的代表，问他们海岸警卫队为开拓北冰洋做了何种准备。

    年轻些的军官看起来非常不满。

    “珍妮特•纳波利塔诺，”他说的是自己的上司、国土安全部长。“根本就不关心北冰洋，我们只有一艘能用的破冰船。”

    站在他旁边的是鲁宾•谢因博格。他身材矮小，提着光头，是海岸警卫队的造船工程师。他提醒年轻人注意措辞。

    然而谢因博格自己也说：“其他所有国家都领先于我们。”

    译者:黄兴宇

    Canadian speaker Arno Keinonen—a naval architect and marine engineer—said, "Bottom line in the Arctic? It is challenging. Potentially deadly. Costly. But it can be done. We are all going to be busy for a long time."

    I ran into two US Coast Guard representatives in the hallway outside and asked them what the Coast Guard was doing to prepare for the opening Arctic.

    The younger officer looked disgusted.

    "Janet Napolitano," he said of his boss, the secretary of homeland security, "doesn't give a shit about the Arctic. We only have one working icebreaker."

    Standing beside him, Rubin Sheinberg, a small, bald chief naval architect of the Coast Guard, cautioned the younger man to watch his language.

    Then Sheinberg said, "All the other countries are ahead."