Tag: environment

SV gets support for oil sands opposition

Norway's Socialist Left party (SV) seems to finally have attracted enough support from its government coalition partner, Labour, to forcefully oppose state-controlled oil company...

More wolves spotted north of Oslo

Police in Akershus County received several more calls during the night and early Monday from residents who claimed they'd seen wolves from Lillestrøm to...

Wolves roaming in and around Oslo

At least one and possibly three wolves have been tracked and spotted in residential areas around Oslo in recent months, also over the weekend,...

Political storm delays climate report

NEWS ANALYSIS: Just as Norway experiences some of its warmest winter days ever comes more news of an ongoing political storm over the government's...

New fare hike ‘shamelessly’ high

New public transit fares were taking effect in Oslo on Wednesday, and already have been been dubbed as "shamelessly" high. It now costs NOK...

‘Exploration boom’ off Norway’s coast

Never before have so many companies won permission to search for oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf as they did this week,...

Oslo tops in bottle returns

Never before have Oslo residents returned so many beverage cans and bottles as they did last year, and a grocery store in the east-side...

Majority support lower environmental speed limits

They may not have shown it in practice, but a new survey indicates that a majority of Oslo residents support reducing speed limits to...

New oil ‘province’ found off Norway

Extension of Norway's lucrative oil age was further assured on Monday when state oil company Statoil announced another major oil discovery in the Barents...

Environmental speed limit collided with the law

Transportation officials tried to reduce air pollution levels in Oslo by lowering speed limits on main highways into the capital to just 60 kilometers...
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