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Majority in Parliament supports EU climate cuts

Even some of the most anti-EU parties in Norway were praising EU leaders on Friday for agreeing to cut carbon emissions by at least...

Huge new oil find as firms cut jobs

Oil company Lundin Petroleum announced a huge new oil and gas discovery  in the Barents Sea on Tuesday that renewed hopes for the oil industry...

Cuts hit economy, boost environment

The major cost- and job-cutting now going on within Norway's oil and offshore industry "will be felt throughout the entire national economy," claims one...

Quarrels arise over rain forest funding

As Norway committed more billions to help save the world's rain forests this week, Norwegian politicians quarreled over who should get the credit for initiating...

Oil players gather to tackle change

Around 60,000 people tied to or challenging the oil industry were once again meeting in Stavanger, Norway's west coast oil capital, for the Offshore...

Støre fuels new oil uncertainty

NEWS ANALYSIS: New Labour Party boss Jonas Gahr Støre has suddenly emerged as the new ray of hope for the environmental movement and a...

Few prepared for extreme weather

As scores of households woke up to flooded cellars on Thursday following more heavy rain during the night, both the Norwegian Red Cross and...

Norway needs to ‘shut down rigs’

A new round of appeals to stop climate change have gone out this week, and they all call on Norway to stop being one of the...

Statoil disappointed, Greenpeace glad

After prevailing over active protests against its controversial drilling plans in the Arctic this summer, Norwegian oil company Statoil has had to admit at...

Greenpeace: ‘We need a new Statoil’

Norway's biggest company, Statoil, has once again been under fire this week, now for allegedly "greenwashing," or trying to gloss over the environmental hazards posed...
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