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Chinese Workersin Greenland?
2013-02-10 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: At remote encampments near the Arctic Circle on the island of Greenland, thousands of Chinese laborers toil to build a vast iron ore mine. It sounds farfetched. But climate change, Greenlands thirst for economic development, and Chinas appetite for minerals could soon make it possible. Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish protectorate with a mostly Inuit population of 57,000, is courting foreign investors to tap mineral deposits that are becoming more accessible as rising temperatures shrink the...
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