Sunday, February 10, 2013

Chinese Workers—in Greenland?

Bloomberg: At remote encampments near the Arctic Circle on the island of Greenland, thousands of Chinese laborers toil to build a vast iron ore mine. It sounds farfetched. But climate change, Greenland's thirst for economic development, and China's appetite for minerals could soon make it possible. Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish protectorate with a mostly Inuit population of 57,000, is courting foreign investors to tap mineral deposits that are becoming more accessible as rising temperatures shrink the...

URL: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-10/chinese-workers-in-greenland
Enclosure: http://images.businessweek.com/cms/2013-02-08/0208-greenland-630x420.jpg

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