Prime Minister Mute Egede has said a development is “imminent”. //

President/President-elect Donald Trump’s tasked his pick for Ambassador to Denmark with persuading the Danes to sell us the resource-rich Arctic land.

Shortly afterward, a major power outage struck Greenland due to a downed transmission line.
The outage left the region dark during a period of with temperatures dropping below -27 degrees Fahrenheit (-33°C).

Now, Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede has called for independence from Denmark in his New Year’s speech, marking a significant shift in the rhetoric surrounding the Arctic island’s future.

Egede, a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, emphasized that it is time for Greenland to take the next step and shape its own future.