Photo: Underground riches in Greenland

In keeping with its “open for exploration” marketing campaign, the Greenland government recently released this map showing potential prospectors what’s underground. It resembles Nunavut’s geology: iron, lead, copper, zinc, gold and diamonds. Greenland also just announced a new National Petroleum Data Repository. For a fee, stakeholders can now go through an online portal and access a GIS-based map which provides an overview of all data related to Greenlandic oil and gas reserves, both onshore and offshore. That’s the kind of information you can get from seismic testing, a practice currently under scrutiny in Nunavut. Groups in Clyde River began a campaign in 2014 to halt the practice off the east coast of Baffin Island until the impact that the sound array gun, and ultimately oil and gas development, will have on local people and the environment. (GOVERNMENT OF GREENLAND MAP)