Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, the negotiations have concluded, and the treaty was really very narrowly focused on responding to marine oil spills in the Arctic. It's an agreement of cooperation among the eight nations of the Arctic Council to establish protocols, should there be an incident, for how we g

Foreign Affairs committee  There are specific elements in the treaty that cover off essentially the life cycle of an incident. For example, if one country detected that an oil spill has occurred, how would we go about notifying each other; what kind of participation would we undertake; how would we call on