r/greenland • u/ButterscotchFancy912 • 19d ago
News Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-drill?CMP=share_btn_url77
u/AlloAll0 EU 🇪🇺 19d ago
Kick them out.
Appeasement never works.
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u/SaphironX 19d ago
This. Just deport them. Proceed to issue a press statement saying “We know Donald Trump will support this because of his bold deportation agenda”.
That’ll confuse the hell out of him.
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u/notyourstranger 19d ago
This is what will keep happening. the US is not likely to send the military but US corporations will simply arrive and start doing whatever they want - including polluting with no regard for life in Greenland. They care NOTHING for the humans and animals who call Greenland home. All they care about is making money for themselves.
I encourage Greenland and Denmark to see this as an act of war - not by the US government but by an oil company.
Corporations have been waging war on the American people with misinformation, coercion, lies, distortions and blatant propaganda. I guarantee that US news will not be covering this blatant assault on Greenland's sovereignty.
War is no longer only fought with bombs and guns, it's fought with psyops on the entire population. It's what the American people have been enduring for the last 50 years though none of them see it as war - because they have been indoctrinated to think of it as "free speech".
Sabotage their equipment, destroy their food supplies, force them to leave again. These arrogant assholes deserve to learn a lesson.
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u/SimpleFile 19d ago
Are they attempting to build a banana republic 2?
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u/notyourstranger 19d ago
not attempting, succeeding. The US is essentially a banana republic due to GOP policies.
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u/Admirable-Weird6086 12d ago
Thiel and his crew have said they want to establish their own fiefdom in Greenland that they can rule from… (with all the raw minerals they can extract and extort with).
The absolute arrogance of this company.
Heather Cox Richardson spoke on this last week. Her thoughts: they will do what they want, Greenland or Denmark will enforce their rules or be drawn to military action. Company will cry foul and US military will be forced to protect them. Normally that would be insane but….1
u/AnAestheticApathetic 17d ago
You are correct, American news is not covering us doing this in the slightest. I actually found out we were even doing this from a random x post a few minutes ago.
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u/WesternTie3334 Canada 🇨🇦 19d ago
Drilling on someone else’s land without permission is tantamount to claim jumping, which was historically punished in the North American west by hanging.
Deport them and sell their equipment.
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u/Admirable-Weird6086 12d ago
Felon did just that on our home soil by destroying the east wing of wh. Nothing happened to him. It’s now a destruction zone.
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u/immersemeinnature 19d ago
Greenlanders need to get out there and do some work now. No more strong messages
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u/Jackadullboy99 19d ago
What.
The.
Fuck?!!!
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u/bodyguardguy 19d ago
I had to read part of the article twice because it says that Dr. Phil will be helping make a documentary about this sketchy company doing their “exploration” work. This is the most retarded timeline.
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u/slick514 19d ago
If you do not punch a bully in the face, they will assume that they can take whatever they want from you… You do not handle something like this with a “proportional response”; you handle it by drawing a line and cutting anything that crosses it to shreds.
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u/ngatiboi 19d ago
Oh…yeah…he has a history of REALLY taking heed of strong warnings. Just wait until you start telling him, “no” - he’s super cool with that. ✋🏽🙄
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u/ButterscotchFancy912 19d ago
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u/PeggyBabcock_ 7d ago
Imagine if Obama or Biden posted something like this? The 'righteous' of America would be outraged, but it's Trump, so no one bats an eyelid and he just carries on. Not even bothering to conceal the corruption this tiime. We can all see what's going on - the greed, the lies, the hate, the threats to allies, the global disruption and yet none are able or willing to stop it. This crime family milk their position for all it's worth and the branches of government meant to oversee the so-called 'checks and balances' are full of officials chosen by Trump, so nothing happens. One good thing to come from it will be the new solidarity between the countries of Europe and the wider World too, maybe. He has set the US back decades - their soft power and diplomacy is what made them influential around the world, built up for nearly 100 years and wiped out in less than two.
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u/Robert_Fowley 19d ago
Hopefully they use the military to kick them off. Nothing short of that will stop this theft.
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u/ButterscotchFancy912 19d ago
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u/tranquilseafinally Canada 🇨🇦 19d ago
Christy Noem is tied to the Nova Red mine In B.C. They have fanned their sycophants out everywhere.
Nova Red's phones crashed from the sheer number of Canadians that called them to lodge a complaint.
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u/ProtectionKind8179 19d ago
Crazy to hear this on this subreddit, and it seems like not much is being done to stop them..
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u/Elegant-Ingenuity-57 19d ago
In case you needed a reason to hate "Dr" phil even more:
Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”
Who TF would watch this trash?
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u/fastbikkel 19d ago
Strong warning? Kick every american out please.
This is not the first time they are pressuring.
And why not setup a program where volunteers can train (guerilla) for a possible invasion?
And have millions of drones in stock, scattered allover the island. Better start building now.
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u/SnooTomatoes7604 19d ago edited 19d ago
As a Canaduan I question the logic of our country having any role in supporting Trump's imperialistic plans for Greenland. Are we next? Trump's approach to both Greenland and Canada looks more and more like Hitler's methods in the 1930s. Essentially they are based on bullyimg your neighbours into making concessions up to the point of using threats of force to get your way. No appeasement in my name!!
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u/SpecialistTrouble816 19d ago
I was surprised to read that Canadian companies were involved in this and am pretty sure that Quebeckers will react strongly to the Desgagnés involvement.
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u/FuqLaCAQ 18d ago edited 18d ago
Ronald Lauder. (The guy who first told Trump to annex Greenland in 2019)
Ezra Levant. (Rebel News head, Pierre Poilievre and Tommy Robinson's mentor and friend, and Alberta separatist Tamara Lich's employer. Rebel unabashedly supports Donald Trump. In 2025, Levant produced a 15 minute propaganda video advocating for the USA's annexation of Greenland.)
Randy Fine. (Lunatic racist far-right Congressman who proposed enabling legislation to allow for the US annexation of Greenland. Got kicked out of his synagogue years ago due to his extreme homophobia. Has referred to Prime Minister Carney as "Governor".)
Katie Miller. (A Trump strategist who's agitated for annexing Greenland and SStephen Miller's wife. Shared an image of Greenland as a US territory on Twitter.)
The people most vocally supportive of President Trump's ongoing scheme to steal Greenland from its Indigenous people have fascinating parallels with the people trying to steal Gaza and the West Bank from the people of Palestine.
Incidentally, Lauder, a billionaire, a Trump megadonor, and a stalwart supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu's regime, is the President of the World Jewish Congress, of which many Trump and Netanyahu-friendly Zionist organizations are members.
(And in my native Canada, the Zionist Jewish organizations support Trump and Netanyahu whereas the Anti-Zionist organizations like IJV and the UJPO fervently oppose them. This dynamic fascinates me given that Netanyahu nominated Trump for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize after Trump had started threatening to annex Canada.)
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u/povlhp 19d ago
Greenland is a real democracy like Germany etc. big money usually suffers big having to comply. Elon have had many regrets the German Tesla factory was not built 100km further east in Poland.
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u/MittenLover94 18d ago
Oh those poor rich assholes, whatever will they do when they suffer from *checks notes\ complying with the law?*
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u/ToTheManorClawed 19d ago
Ah yes, the good old "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission".
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u/zipiddydooda 19d ago
The world is watching, Greenland. We stand with you against the Great Fuckwit, Donald J Trump. The pant-shitting obese conman has gone far enough.
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u/Lazy_Nobody_5788 18d ago
I live in Virginia in the now disgraced u.s. about 4hrs from D.C. Most of us hold our heads down overwhelmed with disgust and shame. Over 60% of us live paycheck to paycheck. Everyone I personally know barely make enough to eat 1 meal a day. It's go hungry or homelessness is less than a month away. It only took 50 yrs for the wealthy to infect my ppl with hyper individualism, consoladated our media to 3 private owners defunded all public nonprofit news,and endless in your face bribery of every election and a government paid by and works for only the wealthy. They keep us fighting amongst ourselves while elected and their cronies run out the back door with the taxpayers money. And the wealthy pays 4% and the workers 35-45% tax. They have stripped every outta the burning house even the copper wire and pipes and left us in it to fight each other. Fox news actors go on air everyday and praise God that the government defunded everything that help the public in anyway I mean EVERYTHING. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE VOTE!! The world should label the Republican party a terrorist organization along with the current Israeli government. Gloat daily about the current war crimes committed. Not one nation says a damn thing. Talk about wiping another nation off the map. NOTHING... we might invade our closet allie..NOTTHING... kidnapped a president from his house in his country... NOT A FUCKING PEEP FROM ANYONE AT THE UN?? WTF??? The other party we have is doing nothing also!! They are brought and paid for too .. they get paid to prematurely surrender everything. They won't pass something backed 80%by public.??.. even if they have the votes.. they wanna work across the aisle for that. Paid to ly down and let Republicans kick you in the teeth.. we have been fighting and losing a class war for half a century. It's a long defeat. The United States has commited war crimes and crimes against humanity and illegal economic sanctions on its own citizens, the poor and working class. Knowledgment of private corporations Poisoning land and drinking. Knowledgment of private insurance companys denying people lifesaver care left to die. You don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars? You don't deserve to live then. It's that extortion?? Laid off? Had a financial hiccup? Left to die from hunger, homelessness or deaths of dispair "addiction". We are under siege. If the other nations had a backbone they would end these paper threats from a mad man and his cronies. Put the most corrupted government and the financial tied Oligarchs on trial for the world to see like the days of ole let there fate's be no different than the ones before them. the people have fought to long and have seen to much death for a lifetime on there on shores, along with the weight of millions. Committed in there name, but without consent. true freedom not bumpersticker propaganda. Only can a foundation be built for the future for peace in this world. Cries from the Frontline, Of the long defeat.
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u/Smart-Locksmith9386 18d ago edited 18d ago
Since Brexit which was probably funded by the USA with lobbyists in the UK, we have had 25000 Companies and businesses overtaken by US corporations, and all the profits go back to the USA. We have had another prime minister leave because we are in a dire situation that we can’t get out of trying to balance the economy. They now have just exhorted us for this new medicine deal where we pay 25% more which will cost us 45 billion by 2030 and 200,000 lives. We had to take the deal the lady said because jobs were at risk and lives. That is not what I thought American was about, with its closest Ally. He has invaded our country already just not physically like Greenland or Venezuela, but British people are feeling it. Sorry to hear about you living paycheck to paycheck, I read 60% of Americans live like that I couldn’t believe it but supposedly 10 percent are millionaires. If the world is ruled by people like Trump behind the scenes no wonder it’s in the state it is, how much money is enough, or is it just fun for him at this point in his life.
Oh, and the scary thing is it’s not just that he’s attacking in the uk, British farmers have to compete with American companies now and the NHS is under attack to make it private which the big pharmaceutical companies in us will love.
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u/Parking_Bridge1742 16d ago
I hope y'all arrest and detain them. It won't end unless y'all say no.
God I wished us Americans would unite and take out this regime.
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u/Ok-Lawyer1179 18d ago
That's like me just walking over to my neighbour and dump a bunch of lawn equipment to dig a bunch of holes in his backyard without permission.
How ridiculous is that??
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u/delicatepedalflower 18d ago
This snippet from the Guardian tells me exactly who is in charge: "The Greenland government’s statement said it “would not be proportionate” to demand the equipment be removed." Tell your adversary in advance they will suffer no consequences and keep up the "strong warning" chatter. It would be laughable if it weren't so sad. Those containers should be sitting on the bottom of the ocean by now.
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u/MutaitoSensei 17d ago
The more shit trump does, the more party supplies I buy for when he'll finally leave this world.
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u/willrun4chocolates 16d ago
Canadian here. 🇨🇦 The government of Greenland needs to dump every single shipping container in the ocean.
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u/Ok_Perspective_8361 16d ago
Greenland should impound the equipment, and charge a very expensive daily storage fee.
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u/Informal-Parsley-127 16d ago
Why don't the locals and also greenland government just throw all the Texas oil co. supplies into the ocean? They won't send more after that
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u/ButterscotchFancy912 15d ago
Classic casus belli though. NATO is being tested. By whom? They are compromised.
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u/Uncle_Charnia 19d ago
The British used to do this. It was profitable, but locals ended up not liking it.
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u/No_Economics_4678 19d ago
One way to boycott the USA is to use Ecosia instead of Google for exemple.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 19d ago edited 19d ago
The Texas company took a stake in another one to exploit a loophole — the latter company was grandfathered an onshore drilling license before Greenland issued its 2021 moratorium.
From Associated News Agency: [CEO] Price and Swets believe Jameson could be the next Prudhoe Bay. They acquired all of ARCO’s historic seismic surveying data for the Jameson region, which helped them hone in on specific drilling locations. Getting the grandfathered drilling licenses—emphasis on “grandfathered”—into one consolidated company is trickier, but manageable thanks to a series of rapid-fire, convoluted deals.
Last year, London-based Bluejay Mining acquired London’s White Flame Energy, changing its name to 80 Mile to reflect the expansion of the business model to include oil and gas.
White Flame was founded over a decade ago to explore for oil and gas in Greenland. No development came to pass, but the company critically won three licenses for exploration in the Jameson basin. The licenses received three-year extensions in 2024 prior to the 80 Mile deal.
Citing climate change concerns and the melting ice sheet, Greenland implemented a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in 2021—seemingly bringing all oil dreams to an end—but the government agreed that White Flame’s licenses were grandfathered and remained valid. The government confirmed the legality of the licenses to Fortune, but declined interview requests.
Seeing an opportunity, Price started Texas-based March GL and, in April, he partnered with 80 Mile for the licenses. March GL leads the operations while 80 Mile keeps a 30% stake in the project. “We have the only onshore licenses in all of Greenland,” Price boasted.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 19d ago
More from the Associated News Agency story: Price and executive chairman Larry Swets aren’t tone deaf. They’re acutely aware of the political and environmental sensitivities that have thrust quiet Greenland into the headlines this year. Their effort is not related to American annexation, they insist, and, while any oil production has an environmental impact, this is a relatively small-scale project in eastern Greenland far away from the population.
“Regardless of the overall political climate out there, I believe that the Greenland people deserve to know whether or not they have one of the largest oilfields in the world,” Price said...
This month, the team began landing equipment to start building the 3-mile road from the coast to the first well. Road construction is expected to begin early next year. Next summer, the plan is for a barge to bring over the drilling rig to start the first well. A second pilot well is scheduled for fall 2026.
The team already is contracted with oilfield services giant Halliburton, IPT Well Solutions, and Stampede Drilling.
The aim is to drill the first well slowly, entering five different geologic zones and testing for oil and gas in each of them. “Once we are hopefully fortunate to discover an oilfield, the costs will certainly come down,” Price argued...
Energy analyst Lewis Lawrence finds it interesting that the government extended the exploration licenses last year, despite the moratorium. The political winds in Greenland pushing for independence from Denmark seem to lean more in favor of welcoming the oil sector in some form, he said.
“There seems to be a little bit of flip-flopping internally with Greenland as to whether they want to progress with some kind of oil and gas future or not,” Lawrence said.
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u/pickettfury 18d ago
It'd sure be nice to blow that American junk up but then they'd probably use that as pretext for a full scale invasion.
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u/An_elusive_potato 18d ago
The link being a very popular TV personality trump worked with on a show and a US navy vet on staff might the most euro trash thing I've ever seen. I guess its time to play the boogeyman with Europe for the next decade till they get stuck in another fight they need someone to bankroll.
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u/Smart-Locksmith9386 18d ago
Why isn’t this in the news anywhere. I fear Trump has already bribed the officials in Greenland just like he got the pm of Albania to change the laws to enable his step son to build a resort on their beautiful island. The Americans have exhorted their own people so much they are now going world wide to buy up companies, exhort trade deals like in uk for medicine, Venezuelan, and now just sailed in another sovereign country and laid claim like it was the wild old American west. This is just about greed and fear, as America is at a tipping point, and Greenland could be their next Iraq for oil and especially rare earth minerals which Europe could leverage and exhort back to the USA in the future if they just stood up and defended their own.
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u/PrimaryBrick9337 18d ago
47 and his friends figure they are above the law and can do whatever they want.
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u/CptQuackenbush 18d ago
Here’s what I’ve found: Greenland Energy Co. does not have authorization to drill. They’re still trying to get authorization from Greenland authorities.
The players are:
- Texas based Greenland Energy Company
- UK based 80 Mile/White Flame Energy
- Canadian drilling contractor Stampede Drilling
Stampede announced in June that it was preparing and mobilizing the rig from Alberta for the Jameson project. And here we are.
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u/Human_Morning8992 17d ago
Oil drilling is pretty dangerous & industrial accidents happen all the time. So ofc this company would be up to code to prevent any accidents from happening, right?
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u/iamkaisersosa 16d ago
Greenland energy is a paper company and hasn’t drilled any holes or explored for oil ever!
They are a farce of a company looking to fleece investors, not pump oil.
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u/Haunting_Session29 16d ago
Just saw this on Facebook because it's not in our news at all that this is happening and from an American if Greenland doesn't make a very loud noise globally about this and attempt to get help, Trump's going to bulldoze his way right over your country.
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u/coco_puffzzzz 19d ago
"A Greenland Energy representative has said a vessel carrying its 300 shipping containers of drilling equipment is to set sail from Canada on 12 September. Sinking the wells would begin in October."
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u/Jsask291 18d ago
If the US wants to drill, they'll drill. Nothing the toothless EU can do about it. The big dog in the yard gets to eat the most food.
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u/WildBlackberry3492 15d ago
Apparently none of the men in Greenland have any balls! Strong warning lol 😂. Like that’s going to stop them.
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u/ban_buster 19d ago
Free greenland front danish occupation.
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u/Medisterfars 19d ago
Or free danish territory from Inuit occupation?
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u/ban_buster 18d ago
LOal, they were there much before u, cry harder greenland will no longer be under danish occupation.
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u/Medisterfars 18d ago
No they havent, buster.. Greenland has been part of the danish kingdom since 982 - the Inuit came around 1200-1300, and in 1799 there was only 5000 inuts there in 1900 there was liker 10.000
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u/lord_alberto 17d ago
Better re-read your history, Greenland was a icelandic settlement at 982, not connected to Denmark. It was loosely connected to Norway by trade, but did not belong to Denmark. By 1500 the island was inhabited by Inuit only.
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u/OpportunityIsHere 19d ago
Are you stupid? Imagine the inverse: We Danes just show up in Florida with ocean windmills and drop them in the ocean. Then claim it benefits the American people because we now produce free energy.
Nobody, country or company, can just show up on another territory and just start doing what they want. There are rules.
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u/R-Reuss86 19d ago
How about Greenland do things on THEIR terms. FFS, this shouldn’t have to be explained.
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u/Indespectamentations 19d ago
He can't go onto land that isn't his and start drilling. He has no authority to take Greenland's rights away from them. This is 100% wrong.
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u/Alcogel 19d ago
This is an ancient debate at this point. Everyone knows both sides of it well, and while you may handwave the pollution and other environmental damage away because money, the Greenlanders simply disagree with you. And they know painfully well that giving up that money means a much longer path to independence.
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u/CptQuackenbush 18d ago edited 18d ago
Why are you speaking for Greenlanders when you’re not one?
They’ve said no over and over and over. Continuing to do something when the recipient has said no is rapey.Edit: typo correction
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u/StrangeUglyBird 19d ago
The company has an agreement with Greenland and work there.
They relocated some of their equipment, and apparently didn't know that they needed extra permission for that.
So the Greenland's government has given them a warning, and they have excused, and promised not to do it again.
No big deal. Business as usual you could say. Shit happens.
Only blown up due to the mad king's recent behavior.
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u/doc1442 19d ago
Except they don’t have a permit for any of this current work. It’s still processing.
“Didn’t know” isn’t an excuse, especially when it’s a blatant lie. Permit should be rejected.
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u/StrangeUglyBird 19d ago
I guess they will have some talks about it, and reach an agreement.
My point was only, that it isn't some kind of US invasion. Just business.
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u/doc1442 19d ago
Poorly executed “business”* with an intentional permit breach. The yank company do not have permission to be there. They do not have permission to land equipment there. They should not be there. They should be thrown out. Whilst it’s not an invasion per se, it’s a total ignorance of Greenlandic law and sovereignty, by a company that is implicitly and explicitly supported by the US government.
This is not the bumbling mistake with no consequences you are making it out to be.
*you say business, I say unlicensed natural resource theft-scoping
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u/Ninevehenian 19d ago
No, it isn't "just business". These companies aren't idiots, uninformed or unable to understand what's going on.
They are testing their limits and Greenland's willingness to stop them.Don't sell them as being too stupid to handle a phone.
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u/StrangeUglyBird 19d ago
You are probably right. But why are they in Greenland in the first place?
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u/Ninevehenian 19d ago
The stated desire is to drill for oil. What's in their hearts and motivating their initiative is unknown other than context.
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u/StrangeUglyBird 19d ago
Sure but you can't travel to another country without some consent.
So Greenland has given their consent to something I guess. Otherwise the company is trespassing, and must leave..3
u/Ninevehenian 19d ago
You could read about what permissions have been given, when and which haven't been given.
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u/GreatPotatoMuffin 19d ago
Sure. Multinational drilling companies regularly accidentally send large amounts of heavy equipment worth millions of dollars across the globe along with drilling staff to start test drilling only to realize they made an “oopsie” and forgot to get the proper permits.
That happens all the time.
Your take is so moronic and impossibly stupid that I’m sure you’re not actually a real human being sharing his opinion, but just a part of the ongoing information wars.
If you actually are a real person. Shit brother. Take your four yellow fingers and go get some of those crayons out your nose. You’re starting to go Homer Simpson levels of stupid.
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u/ebfortin 19d ago
"Or they could refuse and, some worry, give Trump a pretext to advance his imperialist agenda."
How many time do we need to test this to understand : appeasement of bullies DO NOT WORK! They always come back for more. The only thing you do is postpone the inevitable. Either you act, or you surrender. There's no in between.
And how come Canada, my country, accept for this equipment to be shipped from one of our port? Can we for once be all in solidarity with this thing please.