The battle over subsoil continues. An Australian mining company believes it has the right to extract critical minerals from a mountain in South Greenland, a venture which Greenland has rejected due to the risks of unearthing uranium. But if the answer is no, the mining company wants 15 billion Danish kroner in compensation.
Despite murder, imprisonments and the forced displacement of indigenous people, Bjarke Ingels' BIG studio has helped conceive and design a key part of Saudi Arabia's controversial prestige project, Neom.
Carlsberg has 85 percent of the beer market in the Chinese province where Muslims have been systematically imprisoned for refusing to drink alcohol. Experts criticize Carlsberg for participating in the Chinese repression of the Uyghur people.
While Maersk delivers one record financial report after another, local employees in Liberia are fed-up with the working conditions under the Danish shipping giant. Danwatch and Ekstra Bladet have been to the capital Monrovia and have observed systematic wage problems and dismissals in direct violation of Liberian labour laws, while employees tell of lung and eye disease, a futile health insurance and repeated harassment of union members. Maersk rejects several of the more specific criticisms, but acknowledges that there are "inconsistencies" at the port and announces that it is working to resolve them.
The solar cells in large Danish solar plants are produced by Chinese companies using forced labour in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. Experts believe that Danish energy giants are helping to support China's systematic repression of the Muslim Uyghur population.
Supplied with a Danish export loan and helping hands from the Danish Embassy in Lebanon, the Danish company BWSC in 2017 completed the expansion of two highly polluting power plants in Lebanon – a matter of dire consequence for the inhabitants of two cities. Experts criticize Denmark’s agelong habit of supporting ’black projects’ abroad, while at the same time promoting the country as a green frontrunner.
Through a Russian subsidiary, Danfoss has supplied the Russian navy with heat exchangers for at least eight military vessels between 2015 and 2021, according to the company's own sales material. It is highly unlikely that the sale could have taken place from Denmark, but several experts believe that it is in contravention of UN guidelines.
