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

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 urani...

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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
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
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85038011334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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Summary: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 beforeWorldWar II to 2016-2017 when the current Greenlandic authorities prepared a licence 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 longstanding issue and that the current governance does not permit public access to a draft environmental impact assessment 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 on the 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.

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