Trump postpones Denmark trip after prime minister refuses to sell Greenland

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18. Russia wants to drill for oil in the Arctic

And Trump is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin. See NY Times, Aug 4, 2015. "Russia Stakes New Claim to Expanse in the Arctic" https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/kremlin-stakes-claim-to-arctic-expanse-and-its-resources.html?_r=0&fbclid=IwAR0L9sMxfb9MjlWmrahpCNacSjR_9iYxkJT1hGxcTCE7fIHtCsOocNICCFM

It's probably behind a paywall. A few excerpts:

"Russia formally staked a claim on Tuesday to a vast area of the Arctic Ocean, including the North Pole.

If the United Nations committee that arbitrates sea boundaries accepts Russia’s claim, the seabed will be subject to Moscow’s oversight on economic matters, including fishing and oil and gas drilling, though Russia will not have full sovereignty.

Denmark submitted an expanded claim of its own to the United Nations last year, seeking control of economic activity around the North Pole and asserting that the area is part of the continental shelf jutting north from Greenland, not Russia.

The claims are aimed at a section of the Arctic Ocean known as the doughnut hole, a Texas-size area of international waters encircled by the existing economic-zone boundaries of shoreline countries. Conservation groups have opposed any claims to the waters of the doughnut hole, saying they would bring harmful oil drilling and fishing. They point to a recent international accord to ban commercial trawling in the area as the better way forward in the far north."