Tag: climate
‘Extreme’ weather moves into Norway
Pouring rain and strong winds were creating millions of kroner worth of damage in southeastern Norway on Monday, as the extreme weather system dubbed...
Cruise crackdown gets underway
Thousands of tourists were once again streaming off a large cruise ship in Oslo on Tuesday, but no longer from prime berthing space in...
State snubs Sami again, protests loom
The Norwegian government has once again snubbed and angered the country's indigenous Sami population, by dragging out any program to reduce or remove wind...
No plans to take down turbines
A majority of Trøndelag residents want to let controversial wind turbines in the Fosen area keep operating, but only if the rights of Sami...
Wind turbines’ future still up in the air
Sami and environmental activists ended their blockades of several Norwegian government ministries on Friday, after securing official promises that huge turbines generating wind power...
Støre won’t rule out wind turbines on Svalbard
Demonstrations in Oslo over wind power turbines in Trøndelag haven't prevented Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre from considering more such turbines on Norway's Arctic...
From arrests to apology: Government ‘sorry’ it violated Sami human rights
It took a week of protest demonstrations in Oslo, but Sami reindeer herders in central Norway finally received a long-overdue apology from the Norwegian...
Wind turbine protests blow even harder
The Norwegian government is caught in a storm of increasingly angry protests over wind power turbines on the Fosen Peninsula, and over how government...
Norway ‘lacks political willingness’ to meet its climate goals
Despite all the gas and oil money pouring into Norwegian coffers (or perhaps because of it), Norway hasn't invested enough of it in alternative...
No applause for Norway’s ‘double standards’ on climate and nature
NEWS ANALYSIS: On the day after flying home from his latest UN summit on climate and nature preservation, Norway's government minister in charge of...
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