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Isn't EEZ more about resource extraction (fishing, oil) rather than construction? I don't think running undersea cables for example would violate EEZ.
by karpierz 6y ago
Isn't EEZ more about resource extraction (fishing, oil) rather than construction? I don't think running undersea cables for example would violate EEZ.
- StavrosK 6y agoI think so too, but territorial waters isn't the same, no? You can't cross into those without some sort of authorization, AFAIK.
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- throwawayffffas 6y agoI think the owner of the continental shelf (the bottom of the sea under the EEZ), has the right to deny the installation of cables or pipelines. That's how I read paragraph 3 of article 79 of UNCLOS. See here https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/unclos_e.pdf https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unc...
- karpierz 6y agoThey have the right to limit it in their territorial sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Territorial_sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Territorial...) but outside of that, their complaints are only valid if the pipelines would affect the state's ability to use its EEZ.
- yellowapple 6y agoWhich they might, if the cable happens to sit right on top of a drilling spot. The likelihood of that seems astronomically slim, but it's still a possibility.
- koheripbal 6y agoIsn't the entire Mediteranean Sea on the continental shelf? I don't think it's comparable to the shelf off the Atlantic and Pacific.