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Climate Change Brings New Risks to Greenland
2014-01-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When the world's miners, oil-workers, construction teams and industrialists descend on Greenland over the next few years to dig below the rapidly retreating icecap for its ores, hydrocrabons and minerals, no one will watch with more concern -- or confidence -- than Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond. Climate change is placing Greenland at the heart of 21st century geopolitics. As the ice retreats, it is moving from being a non-player in global affairs to the center of a new international resource rush....
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Greenland eyes mines as melting ice cap unlocks mineral riches
2014-01-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greenland will push ahead with a uranium and rare earths mine despite the objections of its former colonial ruler and main benefactor as the melting of the polar ice cap unlocks the country's natural resources, its prime minister said. Arctic Greenland, with the lowest population density in the world, could open its first big iron ore mine in five years and award the first rare earths exploitation licence by 2017, hoping for riches that could attract thousands of workers and leave the locals in...
Oil production in Greenland? Maybe not
2014-01-21 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: None of the oil companies that have a license to drill in the seas surrounding Greenland have applied for one in 2014, according to the environment NGO Greenpeace. Oil companies that want to drill in Greenland will have to apply before 1 February, but according to Greenland's Mining Agency, no applications have been received thus far. This will be the 3rd year in a row that no company has expressed interest in oil drilling around the Arctic country. Though oil has never been found in Greenland,...
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Greenland explores Arctic mineral riches amid fears pristine region
2014-01-05 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: London Mining, a British mineral company, is trying to attract Chinese and other international investors to build a 1.5bn iron ore mine just outside the Arctic Circle in Greenland. The move comes as BP and Shell join others exploring for oil and gas in the pristine waters off Greenland, as concerns grow that the wave of industrialisation in the region will damage the pristine environment. Greenland and the wider Arctic is seen as one of the new frontiers for exploiting mineral wealth, but...
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BP wins first Greenland drilling concession despite chequered record
2014-01-03 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: BP has won permission to drill in the clear waters off Greenland, just three and a half years after abandoning similar plans to apply for a licence in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Greenpeace said it beggared belief that a company with BP's chequered track record would be allowed to work in one of the world's most fragile environments. The British oil company confirmed last night that it had won a licence to work on the Amaroq concession off the coast of north-east Greenland...
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