I don't think so..by the time they cost in a realistic clean up and ground water safety figure, it probably wouldn't be profitable to do so. (as China is apparently finding out) example of REM in the USA. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! not a pretty sight eh?
Yep. If I did it I could do it more cleanly than current mines, and Greenland is getting more land to mine all the time as their glaciers melt.
oops I read the information, then lost the links. It seems that the Chinese company has the funding to get started but wants to use Greenland as a source for raw(partially refined) materials to be processed in China or Vietnam? It seems that the site was first looked at for the uranium.
You are aways doing this. It does make it harder to see the point in responding, as we can't both be sure we are talking about the same piece of information.
As long as it doesn't spoil the enjoyment of the territory for the population of c.60,000 I'd have no problem with any number of mines. It's otherwise just wasted land. Given that the territory is something like the 13th largest in the world by land area, with the population size of 60,000 it is the least densely populated in the world. If the mine is an eyesore then who is going to complain? Sure, if they build it right next to a population centre, then I'd say no, but if that's not the case then go for it, say I.
ok the people of nearest village to the proposed kvanefjeld mine, about 3 miles away are largely opposed to the mine. Meanwhile the government in Nuuk seems to be looking at the imagined economic benefits of the mining. here is a copy of a petition in opposition to developing the mine: "The hearing of the Kuannersuit(kvanefjeld) mining project in South Greenland is currently in effect. This is a mining project that will be extracting rare earth materials including uranium and thorium. A report states that this mining project's electricity is lead by diesel, meaning that the Co2 emissions of Greenland will be increased by 45%. On top of this, the lives of the local sheep farms that are all within a 26 mile/41km radius will be endangered if any problems should occur in the mining project. This mining project is only a 40 minute walk away from the population of Narsaq. The population of Greenland has been trying to fight the initiation of the mine for years in fear of the toxic waste polluting the nature, animals and population of South Greenland and the government is not listening to what they have to say, completely ignoring the democracy of Greenland." They seem to not believe that the mine will be without negative environmental impacts. ........................ Bear in mind that though Greenland is large, the habitable area is small.
That is exactly the point I do not have all of the information that I would like so we come at it from different perspectives, and perhaps, different knowledge which makes for a more thorough and varied and worthwhile interchange. ........................................ Nuuk is 459km away from the mine site in a country with no roads So Does Nuuk want what Narsaq wants?
Of course. You asked if I were a Greenlander would I do it. If it were me I would be sure it would be done as cleanly as possible.
Elon Musk has recently secured some for making batteries Rare earth is required to make all the solar panels & electric cars & electric scooters & electric bikes & computers & new emergent technologies the previous usa administration alienated all its global allies and now have no access to rare earths Rare Earth values will skyrocket depending on what ability speculators have to attack the market but generally speaking rare earth values should easily double in price over the next year with little effort unless the price is being deliberately held down by companys who own the buyer & mining companys. they will be exploiting the value increase to inflate prices to the factories instead of sharing the value increase, they will be stealing & scamming it as a wrought. Greenland has the opportunity to make a lot of money as long as it secures its own resources and doesn't sell them cheaply
USA open cast mining & mining in general is deliberately very bad they deliberately pollute the environment to leverage profit write downs and costings to financially control local authority they politacise this to whip up anti regulation voter support in governors senators the house & in workers. its all very dishonest no different to open bribery or the Russian black market back in the cold war iron curtain days same/same china is a little different to some other countrys they have a more feudal approach to capitalism they expect a high degree of risk to be normal inside some models of working functions they lose hundreds of workers every year to coal mining on the job deaths imagine what level of disease deaths they must have. thousands however though the cultures are vastly different usa/china they are intertwined in business relationships to service a single goal making profit china appear to be a little bit better at capitalism than the usa possibly because of their culture american blind greed is short sighted which is what we now see with the trade war with the majority of american consumer items being made in china with a terrible relationship and very poor cultural understanding at an official or general public level. there is open hostility of racial nature from alt-right americans towards china in general when they buy all their life style items off Chinese and have sent all their manufacturing jobs to china. china has won, they have just not picked up the prize basket yet. dirty bad mining practices that are designed(& created deliberately) to make clean mining look un-affordable, do so to exploit bottom rung consumer money directly into top tear investor profit with no tax Rare Earths is the awkward golden egg laying child in the new future family
mining companys & corrupt government officials do not want it done cleaner because that means more regulations and accountability for spills & accidents & clean up regulations so its all around profit less regulation = more profit it's very simple apart from one aspect which is not overtly simple when it comes to how it is being scammed to scam others how do they scam greenland ? THAT is the game being played they(mining companys & rare earth speculators) want no regulation but some token regulation to sell to the media they want to just get the product without being accountable for mining or workers or environment and they want to drive down the price as hard as possible they also want to undermine the Greenland people to demoralize them and make them feel like hopeless victims on the edge of a cliff so they can force them to sell at low prices the reality is Greenland is in a powerful global position EXTREMELY powerful so the evil people will target them to undermine that power to turn it into profit Remember ~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~<>~ Greenland people have a solid mixed market universal healthcare and universal economic system with free market regulation its like the best ever possible version of what America has wet dreams about but greed & evil undermine the American model to prevent it from developing a true mixed market system so they are envious and so they want to smash it that is why the next thing we will probably see is a disinformation war against Greenland undermining their economic systems and culture probably from Americans