Tag: environment

Oslo delays garbage sorting

Some Oslo residents may secretly be breathing a sigh of relief, after news broke Monday that they won't immediately need to make room under...

New oil era predicted for Norway

Film star Kevin Costner has been in Norway this week, to promote oil spill clean-up equipment and warn Norwegians about oil spill danger. Meanwhile,...

Minister offers new compromise

An underground, instead of undersea, cable may wind up as the compromise solution to a heated political conflict over how to run power lines...

New anger rises over Hardanger

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was back on the defensive Monday morning, after Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that his government may not set up an...

Puffin population under pressure

Norway's puffin population has declined by two-thirds over the past 30 years and researchers are recording another major reduction this season. They say the...

More power line battles loom

Overhead power lines dot the landscape all over Norway, but now local officials may step up demands for underground or underwater cables instead, after...

Government re-evaluates alternatives to disputed Hardanger power lines

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg met opponents of overhead power lines in Hardanger face-to-face in his office on Tuesday, and later said his government would...

Spill preparedness called ‘shameful’

One year after a Chinese tanker grounded off Telemark and fouled Norway's southern coast, environmental activists and those charged with clean-up preparedness are crying...

More static over power line plans

Norway's long-dominant Labour Party has not been having a good summer. After being trounced in public opinion polls, it's now being assailed by both...

Statoil still keen on the Gulf

Norwegian oil company Statoil is logging big losses on the forced disruption of its exploration activity in the Gulf of Mexico, but says it...
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