Open Letter to Robert Price, CEO of Greenland Energy

Mr. Price,

The people of Ittoqqortoormiit deserve answers.

After your recent public meeting in our town, many citizens left with the same question:

Who are you telling the truth to?

In the American media you have been promoting Jameson Land as one of the world’s next great oil discoveries. You have spoken about potential reserves of 13 billion barrels of oil. You have appeared in interviews claiming that Greenland could become a major contributor to global energy supplies. You have spoken with confidence, certainty and enthusiasm.

Yet when you stood in front of the people who actually live closest to the area you want to explore, your message suddenly changed.

Now everything was uncertain.

Now you said you do not know whether oil exists.

Now you said more exploration is needed.

Now you said no one can know until wells are drilled.

Which version should the people of Greenland believe?

The Robert Price who tells American audiences that a historic oil discovery is waiting beneath Jameson Land?

Or the Robert Price who tells Greenlanders that nobody knows whether there is any oil at all?

Because both stories cannot be true.

You cannot sell certainty abroad while selling uncertainty at home.

You cannot encourage excitement among investors while asking Greenlanders to accept that the outcome remains unknown.

And you cannot expect trust when your message changes depending on who is sitting in the audience.

What concerns me most is that Greenlanders are expected to carry the risks while others are encouraged to dream about the rewards.

When speaking internationally, you have painted a picture of enormous opportunities. When speaking locally, you repeatedly retreat behind uncertainty whenever difficult questions are asked.

That is not leadership.

That is not transparency.

And it is not how you build trust with a community whose future may be affected by your activities.

The people of Ittoqqortoormiit are not naive. They understand that exploration involves uncertainty. They understand that geology is complex.

What they do not understand is why your confidence seems to rise when speaking to foreign audiences and disappear when speaking to Greenlanders.

You have also made statements suggesting that operations could proceed year-round with few obstacles from weather or nature. Anyone familiar with East Greenland knows that reality is far more complicated than that.

The people who hunt there know it.

The people who fish there know it.

The people who have lived there for generations know it.

So again, I ask:

Are you giving Americans the sales pitch and Greenlanders the disclaimer?

Are you telling investors what they want to hear while telling local people what you need them to hear?

Greenland is not a marketing campaign.

Ittoqqortoormiit is not a backdrop for investor presentations.

And our citizens are not props in a corporate narrative.

If Greenland Energy wants to operate in Greenland, then start by speaking honestly and consistently, regardless of whether you are standing in front of investors in the United States or citizens in Ittoqqortoormiit.

Because trust is earned through truth.

And right now, many people in East Greenland are wondering which version of the truth they are being given.

Who are you misleading, Mr. Price? The people of Greenland or your audience in the United States?

The people of Ittoqqortoormiit deserve an answer.