Environment Groups Lobby against U.S. Ice Highway across Antarctica

[jpak]

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10603

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — An international coalition of environmental groups next week will lobby Antarctic Treaty nations to ask the United States to reconsider its 1,632-kilometer (1,020-mile) "ice highway" to the South Pole, constructed to bolster scientific study.

New Zealand Antarctic scientists said they will be among the group calling for a fresh environmental impact study of the ice road across the Antarctic wilderness, the "Dominion Post" newspaper reported Saturday.

The highway runs from the Antarctic coast directly south of New Zealand, to the South Pole.

It will enable hundreds of tons of supplies and equipment to be hauled across the world's most inhospitable wilderness on tractor-pulled sleds to the polar Amundsen-Scott Base.

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[Javaman]

1. Given the way the earth is heating up....

the Antartic maybe the place to move to in a few years.