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Greenland’s uranium ban likely to continue.

Gordon Edwards, 30 Mar 25

Donald Trump has belligerently bragged that he will “get Greenland” one way or another. The officially stated piurpose is “national security” but there is also a strong underlying motive: possessing the “rich resources” of others.

Greenland has one of the largest identified deposite of “

Rare Earth Elements” (REE), that are always intimately mingled with uranium and thorium. There is a mountain rich in such radioactive ores located very close to the Inuit village of Narsaq (southern Greenland) that developers would like to strip-mine. This project is called Kuannersuit (in the Inuit language Greenlandic) or Kvanefjeld (in Danish). 
If approved for mining the main commodity from Narsaq would be rare earths and the secondary commodity would be uranium. The economics of the project dictates marketing both. 

However, t
here is currently a ban on uranium mining in Greenland which precludes this mining project from going forward. In 2016  Neils Henrik Hooge was sent to Narsaq by the Canadian group Physicans for Global Survival (PGS), to communicate some of the health-related concerns associated with uranium (and thorium) mining, at the request of the IA (Inuit Ataqatigiit) political party. The ban was enacted a few years afterwards. 

PGS in now IPPNWC – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Canada.

Yesterday (March 28) a coalition government was installed in Greenland which includes the IA party. The ban on uranium mining will likely be upheld and extended for the foreseeable future. So probably no Kvanejeld/Kuannersuit project for now.

But Donald Trump wants those rare earth elements from Greenland. Coincidentally, he is bullying Ukraine into surrendering its rare earth minerals to the USA in exchange for Trump’s brokering a limited cease-fire in the war.

The global supply of rare earths is currently a quasi-monopoly of China. These elements are of crucial importance in many electronic applications, including renewable enetrgy sources. America’s billionaires want unfettered access for Artificial Intelligence and other profitable ventures,.
Canada of course is another tempting target for Trump’s rapacious appetite. Among the plentiful natural resources that Canada has been exploiting and exporting routinely, as if there is no tomorrow, almost always at the expense of indigenous peoples and the environment, Trump’s gang knows there rare earth deposits in Northern Ontario’s “Ring of Fire”. He – and presumably his friend Elon Musk – wants them.

Why should Greenland, or Canada, retain control over anything that Donald Trump wants? 
He is tired of being treated unfairly! 

March 31, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uranium