See here how the legislation ensures the public’s right to be informed and involved in the EIA process for a raw material project (IN DANISH ONLY).

Footnotes for the video

• The provisions of Section 87 of the Raw Materials Act are now incorporated into Sections 106 and 107 of the Mineral Resources Act.

In the two videos (IN DANISH ONLY) below, more words are put on what citizen engagement can be and how the Mineral Resource Authority works to make consultations relevant, and in line with the forms of communication that exist today.

Open information and data

Most environmental data related to a raw material project will be made publicly available in the context of the public consultation of an EIA report. The Environmental Agency for Mineral Resource Activities’ (EAMRA) own publications, such as monitoring reports, can be consulted here.

If you have any questions about specific environmental data, please contact EAMRA at eamra@nanoq.gl

Confidentiality of environmental data

Certain raw data may be subject to restrictions and confidentiality for a limited period. For example, a mining company may have rights to specific information in certain types of reported data for a certain period. General information on any confidential reports may be made public during the confidentiality period. After such a period of confidentiality ends, both the mining company and the Greenland Self-Government shall have the right to freely dispose of all reported data.

Researchers have the right to publish their own data in the scientific context before it becomes fully publicly available.