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Industrial firms celebrate support

It's not often that Norwegian industrial firms, labour and business organizations are all in agreement but they were collectively celebrating this week after the...

‘Fish and oil don’t always mix’

The secretary general for environmental organization WWF in Norway isn't backing down from concerns over huge new efforts to find more oil and gas...

Arctic drilling plans called ‘immoral’

Environmental organizations were quick to vent their fury over new plans, announced Tuesday by Norwegian oil company Statoil, to dramatically expand oil exploration activity...

Shipowner forced to close Rotterdam terminal

Norwegian shipowning firm Odfjell has had to close its major tanker terminal in Rotterdam after Dutch authorities uncovered serious safety violations. Odfjell has also...

Calls rise for less oil sector activity

Unhappy oil rig workers aren't the only ones calling for a reduction in the tempo of oil exploration and production on Norway's continental shelf....

State OKs major windmill project

Norwegian authorities have approved plans to build five new wind-power plants in the western county of Rogaland. The project, involving erection of large windmills,...

New oil resources fuel skepticism

As the oil and gas industry eyes new resources in Norway's offshore Arctic, and celebrated another new discovery in the North Sea this week,...

Suspicions rise over illegal wolf hunting

Several wolves that had been tracked by researchers in Norway have gone missing, and those doing the monitoring of the country's small but replenished...

‘Godmother Gro’ hailed in Rio

Former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland was the target of much attention in Rio de Janeiro this week, at the latest international climate...

Oslo may restrict driving with diesel

Norway's government once urged Norwegians to buy cars that use diesel, thinking they were less polluting, but later determined that wasn't true because of...
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