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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Burgis

Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling

Aerial view of winding rivers cutting through colorful autumn tundra in Greenland
Texas-based Greenland Energy had been just weeks away from sinking its first wells into the tundra of the remote Jameson Land region of Greenland. Photograph: Biosphoto/Alamy

Greenland authorities have forced a US oil company connected to Donald Trump to postpone drilling wells in the Arctic territory, defying claims by the US president’s envoy that Americans could be extracting crude by next year.

Amid Trump’s imperialist threats, tensions have been rising on Greenland’s eastern coast after the oil company brought drilling equipment ashore in July without permission, drawing a “strong warning” from the government.

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