Norway Will Spend $13 Million to Upgrade Its Doomsday Seed Vault

February 26th, 2018

Via: The Verge:

Norway will spend 100 million Norwegian Crowns ($12.7 million) to upgrade the doomsday seed vault it built 10 years ago. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was constructed in an abandoned Arctic coal mine to store and safeguard the world’s crops and plants from global natural or man-made disaster. If nuclear war or global warming kills certain crops, governments will be able to request seeds from the vault to restart their agricultural industries.

The Norwegian government says the upgrades will include the construction of a new concrete access tunnel and a service building that will house “emergency power and refrigerating units and other electrical equipment that emits heat through the tunnel.” Norway’s minister of agriculture and food, Jon Georg Dale, said the building work will begin soon. “It is a great and important task to safeguard all the genetic material that is crucial to global food security,” Dale said in a statement.

3 Responses to “Norway Will Spend $13 Million to Upgrade Its Doomsday Seed Vault”

  1. Miraculix says:

    I’ve been wondering about the “seed bank” on Svalbard for years now :

    1) if the powers that be are expecting the oceans to rise, why choose an island site in the middle of the far Northern Atlantic?

    2) if it’s meant to be a “post-crisis” facility, to replant after a catastrophic event, how is placing it well north of the Arctic Circle and hundreds of miles from land a practical choice?

    3) Funding for the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) comes largely via national, corporate and other “non-profit” organizations. If the world does go to hell in a handbasket, who decides what seeds go where?

    4) If a large-scale catastrophic event occurs — asteroid strike, global tsunami, etc. — WHO will be replanting, and WHERE…?

    My gut tells me there’s an ulterior motive (or two) in the mix, but that’s probably just my inner cynic stretching his legs…

  2. prov6yahoo says:

    TPTB apparently want the seed bank far away from The Masses. As many of us suspect, they aren’t too worried about global warming, although the seed bank’s elevation is 430 feet above sea-level (the same as Dallas, Texas).

  3. dale says:

    @ Miraculix
    1, they correctly expect sea levels to drop
    2, the poles reposition
    3, not us
    4, whoever finds the keys
    5, we got to build our own

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