Tag: environment

Payments halted after environmental scandal

Norway's new Minister of Climate and the Environment Tine Sundtoft has frozen NOK 60 million (USD 10 million) that was earmarked to support the...

Chocolate bar raises rain forest fears

Norway's classic chocolate wafer bar known as a "Kvikk Lunsj" ("quick lunch," and similar to a Kit-Kat bar) is closely tied to the great outdoors,...

Arctic interests clash over mining

The recent discovery of new and potentially lucrative mineral veins containing copper in the mountains above the Repparfjord in Finnmark looks set to stir...

Electric cars now king of the roads

Norway has emerged as a world leader in the introduction of electric vehicles, and Oslo seems to have become the electric car capital of the...

Politicking delayed Mongstad retreat

Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe of the Center Party reportedly decided as early as last spring that the government needed to cut...

‘Moon landing’ crashes for Jens

Outgoing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg logged one of the biggest failures of his political career on Friday when his government had to announce that...

Small leftist parties urged to merge

Stein Ørnhøi, a veteran politician and member of the Socialist Left party (SV), thinks the time is ripe for SV and two other of...

Resurgent Greens stir up campaign

Norway's Green Party has moved off the sidelines of Norwegian politics and firmly into the pre-election fray, with its uncompromising plans "to lift Norway...

Bear hunt begins, hunters threatened

UPDATED: Wildlife conservation authorities have issued permission for hunters to shoot a total of 17 bears in Hedmark, Oppland, Troms, Nordland and Finnmark counties....

Platforms release oil slicks at sea

Offshore oil installations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf have spilled oil more than 40 times so far this year, according to an overview from...
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