(PRWEB via PRWebDirect) April 9, 2008 -- 5 countries claimed the North Pole. Now there are 6 claims. Dutch guy claims as first person in the world the North Pole and began to sell pieces of his claim to the Dutch public via his website. “It’s something like shares in a company,” he explains. “My claims is the company and your claim is a share in that company.”
Harald van Reenen, a former librarian made redundant by his local library, claimed in 2007 the North Pole. He is believed to be the very first person who has a claim to the North Pole and its vast oil- and gas reserves.
3 months ago (dec. 2007) he began to sell pieces of his claim to the public via his website www.giantclaim.com. More than 1250 people have since then become “co-owner” of his claim.
“When I started out just 3 months ago I had no idea it would be such a great success,” he says. “I thought I would sell something like 4 North Pole packages which includes the claim in a month. It became 400 in one day. If only I was 1 month earlier I could have sold 20.000 North Pole packages and that for a small country like Holland.”
As he found out along the way the North Pole claims are a perfect Christmas gift.
He is now seeking business licensees via his web site www.northpoleguy.com in other countries as well who want to sell his claim in their countries.
He explains on his site how it works:“ People can join me when they buy a North Pole Claim Certificate Package. They will be registered on my International database system as a claimant to the North Pole, joining me as the Master Claim holder of The International People’s Claim to the North Pole, that’s the name of my claim.”
“Those who join me become “co-owner” of my claim. Meaning, everyone who has joined me will have a fair share of those profits once our claim is recognized by the United Nations or any other organization that deals with the North Pole.”
He came up with the idea claiming the North Pole himself after reading an article in the Daily Telegraph about the 5 so called Polar nations (United States, Russia, Denmark, Norway and Canada) who are all claiming the North Pole. So far nobody owns the North Pole. “I thought: why shouldn’t I as individual claim the North Pole as well?,” he explains. “If I have to pay for the oil at the petrol station, why not claiming it myself?”
He continues: “Let’s face it: Whether you’re a Russian, American or a European citizen, we all have to pay for the rising oil prices. So to be 100 percent clear, it’s not against the citizens of these great Polar nations.
He wants to emphasize that if we as ordinary world citizens take over the North Pole we decide what happens to the North Pole. “Do we want the oil or do we want to leave the North Pole alone? If our People’s Claim is recognized we decide what happens to the Artic and not just the big players in the world.”
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