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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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Greenland government falls as voters send warning to mining companies
2013-03-15 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The race for resources in the frozen wastes of the Arctic has brought down its first national government, leaving foreign oil and mining companies shivering about the future. Voters in Greenland feared that ministers were surrendering their country's interests to China and foreign multinationals and called an end this week to the government of prime minister Kuupik Kleist. London Mining, which has a former British foreign minister, Sir Nicholas Bonsor, on the board, has been at the centre of a...
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Mining proponents win Greenland election
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Greenland is poised to get its first female prime minister after a centrist party that supports tapping the Arctic island's vast mineral wealth, including uranium, won national elections, a complete vote count showed Wednesday. With all votes counted, Aleqa Hammond's centrist Siumut party won 42.8 percent and 14 seats, while incumbent Premier Kuupik Kleist's left-leaning Inuit Ataqatigiit mustered 34.4 percent. The social democratic Siumut gained more than 16 percentage points since the last...
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Greenland adds nutrient to ocean in side-effect of thaw - study
2013-03-11 08:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A melt of Greenland's ice is washing large amounts of the nutrient iron into the Atlantic Ocean where it might aid marine life in a rare positive side-effect of climate change, a study showed on Sunday. Greenland's thaw, which is raising world sea levels, is also adding about 300,000 tonnes of iron a year to the North Atlantic, based on projections from the muddy melt water of three glaciers in the southwest, it said. That is similar to the amount of iron blown to the region in dust by winds....
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In vote, resource-rich Greenland debates new global role
2013-03-10 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Kuupik Kleist's earliest memories are hunting whales with hand-thrown harpoons. Now, as Greenland's prime minister, he is feted by Chinese and European leaders as he opens up its untapped mineral resources. A verdict on this country's transformation comes on Tuesday, when this island - a quarter the size of the United States and with only 57,000 mostly Inuit inhabitants - holds a general election. There is only one polling station in the capital Nuuk, which has just two traffic lights and where...
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