A PROPOSAL FOR AN OIL SPILL

ROUTEPETERMANN, GREENLAND (74.5167° N, 82.3833° W)TO NORTH ATLANTIC (80.8281° N, 66.4597° W)

It would take a day to travel the 500 miles to Hans island, a rocky outcrop where sovereignty is still disputed by Canada and Denmark. Each vessel carried provisions for 3 weeks, as well as 20 of the de-vices - some of these would be recovered, others lost at sea.

Once moored off Hans Island they would wait for the Icebergs calved from the Peterman glacier to begin their journey from the northern tip of Greenland into to North Atlantic. On this journey they would travel past Hans Island and onto the oil fields of Baffin bay and the Labrador sea where, if spotted, they would be towed a safe distance from the pipelines and oil rigs that peppered the region. It was their job to make sure these icebergs were not spotted.

The devices were to be secured to the top of the icebergs, 15 meters apart, placed along existing fracture lines created when the bergs calved from the face of the glacier. Once the boats had retreated to a safe distance the devices were to be remotely activated, automati-cally cycling through frequencies until they matched the resonance frequency of the ice. With this frequency emitted directly into the fracture lines the iceberg would shake itself apart.

Still large enough to sink a ship or damage a rig, these smaller chunks of ice would be too small to be detected by radar and, sitting low in the water, almost impossible to spot with the naked eye.

Floating silently in the water, the icebergs would drift onwards to the oil fields.

EFFECTED STATES

GREENLAND

CANADA