Julia Nesheiwat’s appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 17 offered a clear picture of the work awaiting the next U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic: strengthening alliances, improving access to the High North, and connecting national security with…
Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen says he is heading to New York, carrying a message of unity and a responsibility to protect the country following a difficult period for many Greenlanders. In a Facebook post written in Greenlandic, Nielsen acknowledged the…
Greenland’s national association for professional fishers and hunters wants the United States to lift its restrictions on sealskin imports, saying access to the American market would increase demand and provide additional income for hunters. In a statement provided to GreenlandEnergy.com,…
Somewhere in Copenhagen, if TV 2’s account is accurate, senior Danish officials are beginning each morning with an uncomfortable ritual: checking what President Donald Trump may have said overnight about Greenland. A delayed exploration well in East Greenland has now joined the…
Greenland Energy Company chairman Larry Swets says the idea of opening the United States market to Greenlandic sealskin products began taking shape in late May, shortly after he returned from the Future Greenland conference in Nuuk. Swets described the initiative’s…
Danish conscripts being sent to Greenland will receive an additional allowance of just DKK 14 to 17 ($2.16-$2.62) per day for serving their country. The recruits are understandably unimpressed. “We feel like cheap labor,” Carl Emil Alsing Kongsmark, spokesman for…
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi is due in Denmark this week as part of a July 2 to July 8 tour of Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway. Beijing announced the trip on June 30 and said Wang would hold talks…
Analysis Energy Transition Minerals’ dispute with the Greenland government is moving toward a more substantive phase in Greenlandic courts. As GreenlandEnergy.com reported following ETM’s June shareholder webinar, the company views October 2026 as the next significant milestone. Greenland’s response to…
A new joint statement from the Arctic Allies has placed Greenland inside a formal security, infrastructure, and resource-development framework at a time of rising strategic attention across the North Atlantic and Arctic. The statement was issued May 22 from Helsingborg,…
The United States opens a much larger consulate in central Nuuk on Thursday, moving from borrowed space at the port to a three-floor, 3,000-square-meter facility in the heart of Greenland’s capital. The opening marks a visible expansion of Washington’s presence…
