Newly-elected left-wing pro-green Inuit Ataqatigiit party says project carries pollution risks
7 April 2021 • 12:57pm
Voters stand in line during the parliamentary election, outside the Inussivik arena, in Nuuk, Greenland, April 6, 2021
Credit: Reuters
A Chinese-backed plan to exploit one of the world's biggest supplies of rare earth minerals in Greenland faced the axe on Wednesday after the country elected a new government opposed to the project.
A snap parliamentary election triggered on Tuesday over opposition to the proposed Kvanefjeld mine in southern Greenland has handed victory to the Inuit Ataqatigiit party, a left-wing and pro-environmental party that has pledged to stop the mine going ahead.