Changing of Finland’s Green guard

News October 26, 2013

Finland’s Development Minister Heidi Hautala (Green), who was also responsible for state enterprises, was forced to resign October 11 due to her handling of a Greenpeace demonstration against the state-owned firm Arctia Shipping which has a contract to break ice to facilitate oil drilling in Alaska, the public broadcaster YLE reported.

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