Tag: climate

Shale gas protests spoil Statoil’s party

Statoil was celebrating 10 years as a stocklisted company this week and promising more growth, but not everyone was keen to congratulate Norway's biggest...

Statoil expands amidst controversy

Norwegian oil company Statoil is barreling ahead with major expansion plans for its oil and gas production, despite ongoing complaints from the country's environmental...

Union boss stirs emissions storm

One of the most powerful men in Norway, union boss Roar Flåthen, has set off uncertainty over the government's commitment to cutting greenhouse gas...

Government quarrels over emissions

Norway's left-center coalition government has stayed united and in power for nearly six years, but quarrels continue. Now the three parties making up the...

Norway spews out more emissions

Norway bills itself as an environmentally friendly nation, but its own greenhouse gas emissions rose nearly 5 percent last year. The 53.7 million tons...

Record April warmest for 100 years

Further weather figures from the end of last month suggest that this April was the warmest since 1901 in many places, with record temperatures...

Warmest waters ever around Svalbard

Norwegian and other international researchers have uncovered a major increase in sea temperatures around Norway's northern archipelago of Svalbard. Their measurements shows that the...

Solheim happy with climate compromise

Erik Solheim, the Norwegian environment minister, won loud applause at last week's UN climate conference in Cancun, as he pleaded for a compromise to...

More delays at Mongstad

The Norwegian government's prestigious carbon capture project at Statoil's Mongstad plant faces even more delays, this time over ongoing concerns about health risks. The government...

Stoltenberg fairly ‘alone’ in Cancun

Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is the only government leader from western industrialized countries who has made the latest round of climate talks in...
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