Friday, March 15, 2013

Greenland government falls as voters send warning to mining companies

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...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/greenland-government-oil-mining-resources
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/3/15/1363384737251/Greenland-008.jpg

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