Here's one hell of an article opening.

"In one of the most remote towns on earth, on the frozen crust of Greenland’s east coast, the American oilman made his pitch."

The American oilman, a vicious, mythical, evocative character, is on the hunt! yesssiiiir:

Near to the very room where they were all sitting, he told a crowd of Greenlanders, could be as much as 13 billion barrels of oil. His company planned to drill two exploratory wells, and if it struck oil, it could be a major worldwide discovery bringing much-needed jobs, loads of tax money and relief to world energy markets.

some questions for Mr. American Oilman at a public gathering

• Why would Greenland get only 15 percent of the profit? (I dunno, what's the going rate for end-of-the-world resource extraction these days? #1515430)
• What kind of chemicals would be used?
• And what about the musk ox? (Musk ox hunting is a big deal up there.)

.... big reveal, somehow it's TV's own Dr. Phil?? I understand nothing.

The moonshot oil project is being pumped up by Dr. Phil McGraw, the TV personality known as Dr. Phil, and Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, both powerful allies of President Trump. It’s the latest push by the MAGA camp to close in on this gigantic Arctic island that Mr. Trump threatened to annex and remains a fixation of his.

A few years ago, Greenland declared it was suspending oil exploration. The Arctic is among the fastest-warming regions in the world, and the Greenlandic government felt it was wrong to contribute more fossil fuel pollution. ... But the oil prospectors in this case are operating with a valid license granted before the policy changed

oh, look at this vista. Drill that shit, baby.

Ever since Mr. Trump set his sights on the island, Greenland has become a magnet for investors and allies chasing Arctic resource dreams. But oil has never been easy.
Chevron and Shell prospected decades ago with no success. It’s incredibly expensive to build an oil industry from scratch in one of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet.

Ah yes, our beloved Mr. Griffin is involved

... the project, a joint venture between Greenland Energy, the small, publicly traded U.S. company that raised the money, and 80 Mile Plc, a British outfit that acquired the drilling licenses several years ago. [...] One investor is the Citadel hedge fund, run by the investment titan Ken Griffin, and the Trump administration fully supports the project.
“Greenland could be exporting two million barrels of oil a day,” said Governor Landry, Mr. Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, in a Fox News interview in May. He added, “Think about what kind of pressure that would relieve in the Straits of Hormuz.”

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