Greenland Steps Up Its Independence Calls as Oil Ambitions Grow
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Greenland’s goal of gaining full independence from Denmark is getting closer as rising oil prices and melting ice spark renewed interest in its fossil fuels from companies such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Statoil ASA.
“The recent discoveries of possible findings of oil have increased the debate on the issue of independence,” said Greenland’s Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist, in an interview in Oslo yesterday, after meeting with Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere. “It is a goal and every day we are coming closer to that.”