'60 Minutes Australia' program propaganda for greedy Australian mining company and Trump’s Greenland takeover (www.greenleft.org.au)

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Mariane Paviasen Jensen, a Greenland MP for the Inuit Ataqatigiit party and prominent environmentalist, has described a 60 Minutes Australia program shown on Channel Nine on August 10 as a “propaganda broadcast” for an Australian mining company and the United States President Donald Trump — who has publicly declared his intention to takeover Greenland “one way or another”.

Entitled “Why are China and the US fighting over Greenland's rare earths?”, the program promoted a giant rare earths and uranium open cut mine in Kuannersuit near Narsaq — Paviasen Jensen’s hometown — which has been proposed by Australian company Energy Transitions Minerals (ETM) but rejected by the Greenland government in 2023. The company is challenging this decision in Greenlandic and Danish courts.

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[-] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

This post has been reported for possibly questionable source. Given that many people outside Australia won't be familiar with Green Left Weekly, I'll explain a couple of things:

Green Left Weekly is absolutely biased. It is not a broad news source, rather it selects articles that covers topics it and its readers are interested in. It will interview people that will talk about issues it cares about.
It often uses language that will trigger a more emotional response that a straight-talking site would avoid, they also skip providing sources sometimes.
That said, it is not factually incorrect. The very website used to report it as a questionable source also concedes that Green Left Weekly has never failed a fact check.
Australians generally know all this. Take the story with a grain of salt, but if the publication says a mining company is challenging for its right to dig up rare earths in Greenland in courts, you can accept it as given that a mining company is indeed doing that thing.

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting site.

Methodology.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Australian mining company

No. They're a front for Canadian mining company Medallion Metals.

ETL currently has a share price of AU$0.097

They are worth less than 10c, don't have and have never had any projects and all but one of the executive staff are Medallion executives (the one that isn't is a Western Australian lawyer)

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