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Card image 14 February 2024 Daily Maverick

Melting ice, geopolitical heat? Westminster hears of simmering Antarctic ‘mining’ threat via Cape Town

During a new UK House of Commons inquiry into British South Pole interests, a leading academic has told MPs that Russian oil and gas surveys via Cape Town may raise questions about the vulnerable region’s future. Citing a Daily Maverick investigation, Professor Klaus Dodds noted that international law would, eventually, allow any signatory state to walk away from Antarctica’s mining ban and the wider treaty edifice.

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