Ecosocialists win Greenland elections by opposing Australian mining project

Peter Boyle
Niels Henrik Hooge
Søren Søndergaard
April 19, 2021
Issue 
1304
World

On April 4 an ecosocialist party, Inuit Ataqatigiit, won a snap election in Greenland in what was a virtual referendum campaign on a proposed uranium and rare earth mining project by an Australian company, Greenland Minerals Ltd.

Peter Boyle spoke to Niels Henrik Hooge from Friends of the Earth Denmark and Søren Søndergaard a MP from the Red-Green Alliance in Denmark about the result.

Ecosocialists win Greenland elections by opposing Australian mining project
Greenland: Ecosocialist party wins election by opposing Australian mining project
Denmark’s Red-Greens — Climate crisis shakes up politics
Environment
Europe
rare-earth mining
Inuit Ataqatigiit party
Danish Red Green Alliance
Podcast
Greenland

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