Greenland’s government issued a “strong warning” last week after a new Texas oil company linked to US President Donald Trump moved equipment intended for exploratory drilling ashore without the required approval. Nuuk’s authorities must now walk a tightrope between stabilising relations with the US and resisting Trump’s territorial ambitions.
A Texas oil company that wants to extract what could amount to billions of barrels of oil from East Greenland’s Arctic basin has crossed a red line before even starting to drill.
