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Chris Wright: “This is not about resource capture at all. This is about…”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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Full Interview: Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Trump's push for Greenland, more

Published | Video Starts at 01:10

What, though beyond national security is the potential, let's say, American bounty out of Greenland, the opportunity to extract various rare earth minerals, oil. Have you assessed that yet? Yeah, of course there's resources there, but it's a remote area. This, This is not about resource capture at all. This is about national security. And of course, anything that can be done for economic development for the local Greenlanders, for, of course, that's a positive too, but the issue is national security. (01:10–01:16)

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Asserts that the U.S. interest in Greenland is not for resource extraction but for national security.

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