Tag: environment

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...

Contractor dumped supermarket rubble

A contractor in Nord-Trøndelag landed in hot water after dumping the remnants of a demolished Coop Prix supermarket beside a walking trail in Kopperå....

Norway helps EU fund carbon capture

Norway's former left-center government didn't manage to get its own much-hyped carbon capture project up and running at the Mongstad refinery on the west...

Sea eagles return to the Oslo Fjord

A pair of Norwegian sea eagles known as havørn has returned to the Oslo Fjord area and begun nesting on the large island of Håøya,...

WWF rings alarm over fresh shrimp

Environmental organization WWF is warning Norwegians against indulging in one of their most popular summertime meals: Fresh shrimps, normally served with bread and mayonnaise,...

Greenpeace fights ‘illegal’ boarding

UPDATED: The Greenpeace ship Esperanza, moored at the Hoop drilling site 175 kilometers from Bjørnøya (Bear Island) on Friday afternoon, was later boarded by Coast Guard...

New protest flares over oil drilling

UPDATED: Norwegian police moved in early Thursday to remove Greenpeace activists who had illegally boarded a Statoil-chartered offshore drilling rig in the Arctic. By...
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