Global warming: Myanmar, Greenland and green cars
By G. Dunkel posted on April 16, 2021
Greenland is the largest island in the world which is not a continent. Only it and Antarctica are covered by ice sheets. With 58,000 people, 89% of whom are Inuit, it remains a “semiautonomous region” under Danish rule whose main exports are fishery products and whose budget is heavily subsidized by Denmark.
In Narsak, Greenland, the fishing village closest to the proposed mine, many people know radioactive dust from uranium would be dangerous.
Global warming and the resulting melt of Greenland’s ice sheet are exposing mineral resources with potentially vast profits.
Electoral workers counts ballots in the national general election in Nuuk, Greenland, April 6, 2021. Credit:
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Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election, according to initial results.
With all votes counted Wednesday, the left-leaning Community of the People party (Inuit Ataqatigiit) had secured 37% of the votes, entitling it to 12 seats in the Greenlandic national assembly, the 31-seat Inatsisartut.
Its biggest rival, the ruling center-left Forward (Siumut) party, took the second spot with 29% of the votes, giving it 10 seats in the legislature.
Voters stand in line to cast ballots Tuesday for Greenland s parliamentary elections at a polling station in the capital. Image: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images
Voters in Greenland have given an opposition party its first-ever chance to form a government after a campaign that sought to define the limits of development on the Arctic island.
The Inuit Ataqatigiit party won 37% of the vote, compared with 29% for the ruling social-democratic Siumut party, according to official results reported by Reuters. The vote totals should allow Inuit Ataqatigiit to grab 12 seats in the 31-member unicameral legislature, known as the Inatsisartut, meaning it will likely need to form a coalition with support from one of the smaller parties.
Climate change: Arctic mining scheme in doubt as opponents win snap election in Greenland A major mining project in Greenland aimed at exploiting the Arctic island s huge untapped mineral resources has been thrown into doubt following a snap election.
The main opposition Inuit Ataqatigiit (Community of the People) party, which is against the scheme at Kvanefjeld that holds one of the world s largest deposits of rare-earth metals, has become the biggest in parliament following the poll.
It took 37% of the votes, unseating the ruling social democratic Siumut party which secured 29%, official data showed.
Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) leader Mute Egede, 34, will be first to try to form a new government.
Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election, according to initial results.
With nearly all votes counted Wednesday, the left-leaning Community of the People party (Inuit Ataqatigiit) had secured 37% of the votes, entitling it to 12 seats in the Greenlandic national assembly, the 31-seat Inatsisartut.
Its biggest rival, the ruling centre-left Forward (Siumut) party took the the second spot with 29% of the votes, giving it 10 seats in the legislature.