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Guardian: The new government in Greenland has slapped a moratorium on the granting of fresh offshore oil and gas drilling licences in the country's Arctic waters in a move which has been welcomed by Greenpeace but will disappoint the industry.
The ban came as one of the Arctic drilling pioneers, the British company Cairn Energy, failed in a bid to keep an injunction on any protests organised against it by Greenpeace.
A coalition agreement signed by prime minister Aleqa Hammond and others inside a newly......
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Greenland halts new oil drilling licences
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 27th, 2013
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