The first in a new series of light-hearted columns about life as a foreigner living in the Danish capital.
Tag Archive | "Arctic"
The Living in Copenhagen Diary: entry number one
Posted on 01 March 2012.
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Cairn comes up empty-handed again
Posted on 07 December 2011.
Cairn Energy has yet again failed to find oil or gas at its wells in Greenland. The Scottish exploration company’s shares fell one percent on the announcement that another two dry wells are to be plugged and abandoned.
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Chinese land grab in Iceland causing military fears in Canada
Posted on 05 December 2011.
Iceland’s foreign minister this morning described Canadian fears that Huang Nubo’s hoped-for land purchase in Iceland is part of a wider Chinese plan to take the country over, as ‘ridiculous’.
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Cairn finally scores in Greenland
Posted on 17 November 2011.
British drilling firm Cairn Energy has seen its share prices increase after finally finding evidence of oil in one of its controversial Greenland wells.
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Icelandic president gives Arctic conservation speech in Brussels
Posted on 13 October 2011.
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, gave a keynote speech on the future of the Arctic at a conference in Brussels yesterday.
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President of Iceland in Russia, meets with Putin
Posted on 23 September 2011.
The Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, invited Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, to a conference on Arctic shipping and other affairs of the high north. The conference started yesterday and is mainly about the new opportunities and responsibilities that will come with melting sea ice.
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Greenland publishes Cairn spill plans
Posted on 17 August 2011.
The Greenland government has published oil spill contingency plans for controversial drilling firm Cairn Energy after repeated calls for such action from environmental activists.
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No oil found at Cairn’s Greenland well
Posted on 06 August 2011.
British oil and gas explorer Cairn Energy has announced that it failed to find oil at one of its controversial wells off the coast of Greenland.
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