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The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions—but what does that actually mean for the world?
He argues that his company will help the people of Greenland by leveraging the country’s natural resources and paying taxes on income generated from them, and it’s an ambition the government shares. Ben Tabib promises that the project will be carbon-neutral on-site, as the dam will also double up as a hydropower station, and that as well as powering the facilities on land, some of this energy will be used to produce green hydrogen. If technology allows once the dam is live—and Ben Tabib acknowledges, it doesn’t currently—this fuel will be used to power the ships transporting Arctic Water Bank’s product, making the whole operation carbon-neutral.
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