Daddy's Brewpub in Nuuk, Greenland, offers a cozy escape from the harsh winter climate. Recently, it gained international attention as a meeting point for journalists covering Donald Trump Jr.'s surprise visit and the subsequent discussion of the US's interest in acquiring Greenland.
With temperatures plunging to minus 10C overnight and snow piled in drifts in the street, Daddy’s brewpub in downtown Nuuk offers a welcome respite from Greenland ’s famously unpredictable winter climate. Think nachos and rib-eye steak on the bar menu, comfy booths, pool and darts, soccer blaring from the TV and tap beer supplied by a neighbouring microbrewery: try the Nittaalaq, a crisp pale ale named for the Greenland ic word for a single perfect snowflake.
‘Don’t get us wrong, Greenland is a very special destination ... but there’s also some things not always in our control.’ Old enmities with the Danish colonisers linger. In 1951, with echoes of Australia’s stolen generations, 22 Inuit children known as the “” were resettled with Danish foster families in an attempt to re-educate them as “little Danes”. In the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an intrauterine device in a Danish effort. It remains unclear how many gave consent or were given a proper explanation. An investigation into the scandal remains ongoing.
For now, tourists mostly come on cruises, day-trippers flooding picturesque historic settlements such as Ittoqqortoormiit – an issue that’s especially noticeable in a land with the lowest population density in the world. ‘If I had pitched this scenario as the opening for a new season of Borgen … I probably would have been laughed out of the writers’ room.’, centred on a fictional Danish prime minister and with plot lines in 2022 including oil-drilling shenanigans off the coast of Greenland and a bullying US ambassador.
Still, some in Trump’s camp have not been content with the status quo. Their concerns seem to be based largely on growing Chinese and Russian interest in the increasingly accessible Arctic and potential threats to America’s presence on Greenland should the islanders gain independence and seek new economic accords. US Vice President J.D.
Also possibly overheated are US concerns about Greenland’s mineral reserves. A rare mineral called cryolite, needed in aluminium smelting, was mined there from the 1850s and was critical during World War II, and there was interest in uranium deposits until the mid-1980s, when Denmark passed a law prohibiting power production from nuclear energy. Today, there are only two active mines in Greenland, one producing gold, the other anorthosite, which is mostly used in fibreglass.
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