Months after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his threats to annex Greenland, the semi-autonomous Arctic island is pushing back against another threat — the setting up of drilling infrastructure by a U.S. oil company on its territory without permission.

U.S.-based oil company Greenland Energy is preparing to drill for oil in Greenland, having moved drilling equipment to the island’s east coast.

While it can take years for any kind of drilling operations to start functioning in the Arctic, the move sends a “signal” to Greenland and Denmark, said Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Scott Clancy, a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the…

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