Icebergs and Oil in the North Atlantic, Reframing Human Relationships with Ice

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• Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon
• Wednesday 08 June 2022, 14:30-15:30
• Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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Since the 1970s, oil companies off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador have been drilling for oil right in the middle of Iceberg Alley. To ensure uninterrupted oil flows, and to make the North Atlantic Ocean safer for capitalism, they have monitored, mapped, moved, blasted, and towed Arctic icebergs that drift into their ocean ‘frontier’. At the same time, widely circulating environmental narratives have turned icebergs into unpredictable enemies. Ice in this story, then, becomes less an icon of the climate crisis and more an agent of the Anthropocene.

This talk is part of the Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows series.

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