From ABC
News Australia

Canada sends warships to defend Arctic
land

 The Canadian Government is sending two warships north to the Arctic
Ocean as part of efforts to assert territorial claims.

The move comes amid a dispute between Canada and the Danish territory of
Greenland about which of them has sovereignty over Hans Island, a square
kilometre of uninhabited rock in the Arctic.

Canada is deeply worried that it has taken what it considers its Arctic
territory for granted.

It is also believed that global warming is causing the rapid melting of the
ice across the Arctic and that could make the legendary North-West Passage
linking the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans passable for ships for the first
time.

The United States has already warned that it regards the passage as an
international strait, not Canadian waters.

Russia, Norway and Denmark also have competing claims to the continental
shelf and the natural resources such as gas and oil that may lie beneath the
seabed.

Where there is oil there is conflict. Seems like every day we here more about
a struggle for global domination.