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Greenland halts new oil drilling licences
2013-03-27 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The new government in Greenland has slapped a moratorium on the granting of fresh offshore oil and gas drilling licences in the country's Arctic waters in a move which has been welcomed by Greenpeace but will disappoint the industry. The ban came as one of the Arctic drilling pioneers, the British company Cairn Energy, failed in a bid to keep an injunction on any protests organised against it by Greenpeace. A coalition agreement signed by prime minister Aleqa Hammond and others inside a newly...
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