“With such a small population we could be overwhelmed by people coming to work here. Much better to stay with the friend you know.”Ī major mineral find could be catastrophic, he said. “As everybody gets more desperate for that commodity you do not want to be a very, very small, very independent country, very far from anywhere else. “We hope it will happen soon.”īut Professor Minik Rosing, of the University of Copenhagen, who was born in Greenland, believes it would be a disaster if his country had a big oil find and used the revenue to buy independence. A referendum in Denmark had shown a majority in favour of granting Greenland home rule. It was ironic, she says, that climate change had melted the ice sufficiently for prospectors to move in, and that might in turn give the nation its independence. No contract has been signed but the minister hopes this project will provide 3,500 much-needed jobs.
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The vast lakes and melting ice cap provide enormous potential for electricity free from fossil fuel and the Greenland government is negotiating with Alcoa, an aluminium company, to built the world’s second largest smelter. The United States is strengthening its air base at Thule on the extreme north of the island and the Russians have already planted flags on the sea bed.īut rather than putting her faith in mineral wealth, Mrs Hammond believes that her country’s best prospect of buying its independence lies in hydro-electricity. Greenland is the land mass closest to the North Pole and has rapidly assumed greater strategic importance as its much more powerful and populous neighbours vie for a slice of the Arctic’s supposed mineral wealth. “Then, we could not strike out alone because we were so heavily dependent on Danish money, and we still are, but we can change that by exploiting our natural resources to achieve financial and political independence.”īut some argue that independence has dangers. My mother’s generation fought for Greenland homeland government and achieved it in 1979, leaving only foreign affairs and defence in the hands of Denmark. We do not feel ourselves part of Europe – we are an Arctic people – but our way of life is changing and we have to change with it. “It is natural for a country to want to be independent. The island has internal self-government but Denmark is responsible for foreign policy.Īleqa Hammond, the foreign minister in Greenland’s home-rule government, hopes that the oil and mineral companies moving in will create sufficient wealth for her country to break from colonial rule. With its 56,000 population scattered over an area almost the size of Europe, Greenland is heavily dependent on a subsidy from Denmark for survival. The couple has two sons, Walter Cronkite IV and the late Peter Cronkite.The dash for minerals is fuelling another debate in Greenland: whether the country should go for independence from Denmark. She is the wife of Walter Cronkite III (born April 22, 1957) and daughter-in-law of the late television journalist Walter Cronkite. She had a recurring role on Spin City as Helen Winston, eventual ex-wife of mayor Randall Winston, and on Orange Is the New Black, as Piper's mother.
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She was a regular cast member of the television series Strangers with Candy. Rush has acted in a number of movies and television series, including the Woody Allen films Zelig and The Purple Rose of Cairo. In December 2008, she joined the cast of the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit. In 2003 she acted in the comedy film American Wedding, as Mary Flaherty, Michelle Flaherty's mom. She also acted in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. In 1984, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off. She has worked in television, film and on Broadway. Deborah Rush (born April 10, 1954) is an American actress.
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