SV gets support for oil sands opposition
April 19, 2012
Norway’s Socialist Left party (SV) seems to finally have attracted enough support from its government coalition partner, Labour, to forcefully oppose state-controlled oil company Statoil’s controversial oil sands operations in Canada. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) polled half of Labour’s 64 Members of Parliament and found that 12 are willing to urge the government to instruct Statoil [...]
More oil sands’ static for Statoil
November 29, 2011
Another demonstration against oil company Statoil was held outside the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo on Monday, with a broad alliance calling Statoil’s oil sands project in Canada a “shame” for Norway and Statoil itself. Meanwhile, in Turkmenistan, Statoil reportedly held a small demonstration of its own. Politicians from the Christian Democrats, the Liberal Party (Venstre) [...]
