COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Greenland’s government wants to make sure the sparsely populated Arctic island doesn’t get “ripped off” by foreign companies seeking to exploit its natural resources, the new premier said Wednesday.

Aleqa Hammond, whose center-left Siumut party won a parliamentary election last month, said in Copenhagen that “there is a life after mining” and called for laws that “protect the people, our environment, our health.”

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