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By Lauren Krugel A drilling rig was being retooled in Alberta. Trucks and cranes were set to ship from Denmark. More equipment was due from Houston. And a Quebec shipping firm was preparing to receive cargoes from those far flung locales at a port west of Montreal, load them Tetris-style onto vessels and sail this fall to Greenland’s rugged and inhospitable east coast. All this, in preparation for what would be the first oil wells to be drilled in the barren tundra of Jameson Land Basin. But then, in mid-August, authorities in the mostly autonomous Danish territory said they needed more time to review Greenland Energy Co.’s plans to tap what it believes could be an oil bonanza. “We literally shut everything down in its tracks,” Robert Price, Greenland Energy’s… <\/p>\n

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By Lauren Krugel A drilling rig was being retooled in Alberta. Trucks and cranes were set to ship from Denmark. More equipment was due from Houston. And a Quebec shipping firm was preparing to receive cargoes from those far flung locales at a port west of Montreal, load them Tetris-style onto vessels and sail this fall to Greenland’s rugged and inhospitable east coast. All this, in preparation for what would be the first oil wells to be drilled in the barren tundra of Jameson Land Basin. But then, in mid-August, authorities in the mostly autonomous Danish territory said they needed more time to review Greenland Energy Co.’s plans to tap what it believes could be an oil bonanza. “We literally shut everything down in its tracks,” Robert Price, Greenland Energy’s... <\/p>\n

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