Tag: environment

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...

Labour backs new Svalbard coal mine

Norway's Labour Party was attracting more criticism from environmental organizations on Tuesday, after its parliamentary group decided to support the opening of a new...

South Pole parties mixed pride, PR

Norwegian officials made the most of the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's arrival at the South Pole on Wednesday, with the king, the crown...

More climate cuts sought at home

Two of the three parties making up Norway's government coalition are demanding that more emissions cuts be made at home, after the Kyoto agreement...

Expeditions late for South Pole party

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was flown into the South Pole this week and now some of the leaders of new polar expeditions have resorted...

Safari tour lands MPs on defensive

Four Norwegian Members of Parliament were fending off criticism on Friday after they ditched a session of the UN climate conference in Durban, South...

Jens, stay home!

COMMENTARY - VIEWS ON THE NEWS: Has anyone else noticed the irony of how people worried about the climate - including Norwegian Prime Minister...

Another government quarrel erupts

Members of Norway's left-center government coalition are quarreling again, with cabinet minister Kristin Halvorsen now complaining about her government colleague, Oil & Energy Minister...
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