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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Burgis

Licensed to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland

Colorful houses in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, clustered on rocky, snow-patched hillside above blue water
At a meeting in Ittoqqortoormiit, a settlement of 300 people, Robert Price said he believed $1tn of crude lay beneath Jameson Land. Photograph: Adrian Wojcik/Getty/iStockphoto

On 10 June, a snowy-haired American in his 60s addressed the residents of a remote Greenland hamlet. He was there to tell them about a business venture supported by figures linked to Donald Trump. “So,” Robert Price said via an interpreter, “we have a project to drill for oil here.”

The Texas oil company that Price represents, Greenland Energy, hopes to prove that billions of barrels of crude lie underground by bringing in 300 shipping containers of drilling kit.

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