externalities

NARSAQ, GREENLAND – Mariane Paviasen had greeted dozens of geologists, researchers and maybe even a few mining executives when they touched down on the Bell helicopters used by Air Greenland to ferry visitors to this remote part of the world. But in 2014, Paviasen traded in her practiced welcome pitch for a less agreeable disposition, after she decided to oppose a rare earth mining concession granted to an Australian company called Greenland Minerals, Ltd. (GGG), just five miles from her home in Narsaq.