NUUK, Denmark — Greenland votes Tuesday in legislative elections largely seen as a referendum on a controversial mining project that would help diversify the Arctic island’s economy as it plans for a future altered by global warming.
The autonomous Danish territory obtained ownership of its vast mineral reserves in 2009 when its self-rule powers were widened.
Those resources, its geopolitical relevance and easier access due to melting sea ice have made Greenland increasingly attractive to the world’s superpowers in recent years. Donald Trump, when he was US president, even offered to buy the island in 2019.
While Denmark and Greenland made it abundantly clear the territory…
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