Åbenhed, gennemsigtighed og den berørte offenligheds deltagelse i beslutninger vedrørende udvinding af uran i Grønland:en juridisk og politisk vurdering

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Authors: Pelaudeix, Cécile, Basse, Ellen Margrethe, Loukacheva, Natalia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Greenland; uranium; environment; oppeness; Transparency; public participation; Eia; Uran; greenlandic; Grønland; Polar Record
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/812cdb78-f1fc-44eb-bb51-301abce5f352; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247417000596; https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/openness-transparency-and-public-participation-in-the-governance-of-uranium-mining-in-greenland-a-legal-and-political-track-record/0EF9F1C25241ADD4B45096568C4060A3

Artiklen behandler den manglende inddragelse af offentligheden i de beslutninger, der tages vedrørende indvinding af uran i Grønland This article examines the implementation of the principles of openness, transparency and public participation in the decision-making regarding the conditions for uranium mining in Greenland from a legal and political perspective. The time frame covers the period from the exploration for minerals before the Second World War to 2016-17 where the current Greenlandic authorities prepared a license for a project of extraction of rare earth elements and uranium in Kvanefjeld. It is shown that the issue of openness, transparency and public participation in Greenland is a long-standing issue and that the current governance does not permit public access to a draft EIA report, impairing public participation in decision-making, and preventing the environmental consequences of these activities from being considered as a public concern. It is argued that sovereignty - its consolidation and the accession to it - has impacted the design of governance in Greenland, and that the constraints put today on a full implementation of the legal principles of openness, transparency and public participation in the governance of uranium mining in Greenland, amongst other factors, point to a current hybrid political and legal order in the context of a political agenda of independence.