Greenpeace canât stop Arctic drilling, says Norwayâs supreme court By Lars Erik Taraldsen on 12/22/2020
OSLO (Bloomberg) - Norwayâs top court dismissed an attempt by climate activists to halt Arctic oil exploration by Western Europeâs biggest petroleum-producing nation.
The Nordic government beat back a lawsuit by environmental groups in the countryâs Supreme Court, which ruled on Tuesday the authorities had acted lawfully by awarding exploration licenses in the Barents Sea to companies including Equinor ASA, Aker BP ASA and Lundin Petroleum AB.
Greenpeace and Nature and Youth, a local environmental organization, argued in the lawsuit that the 2016 license award in the Arctic Barents Sea breaches Norwayâs constitution and its commitments under the Paris Agreement.
March 29, 2021
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Norway Says ‘No Way’: Norwegian Government Faces Furious Backlash Against Industrial Wind Power
Pollster’s claims about everyone being in favour of wind power hit a brick wall just as soon as wind turbines get speared into their backyards. Funny about that.
Delivering a grinding, thumping, pulsing cacophony of low-frequency noise; destroying bog lands, waterways and poisoning underground water supplies; throwing 15 tonne blades to the four winds; sparking wildfires; slaughtering birds and bats; and ruining pristine landscapes – including the wholesale clear-felling of forests – it doesn’t take people long to turn against industrial wind power. And, so it goes in Norway.
By Lars Erik Taraldsen and Michael Smith (Bloomberg)
The Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten Group was ready to show the world that ships could be made safe from Covid-19. It outfitted its newest vessel, the MS Roald Amundsen, with a suite of prevention measures for cruises among the glaciers, fjords and polar bear breeding grounds of Svalbard Island, far above the Arctic Circle.
And yet sometime after the Amundsen left Tromso, a port in northern Norway flanked by snow-capped mountains, on July 17, the virus found its way on board. Eventually, 71 passengers and crew members from two back-to-back cruises to Svalbard were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, outbreaks that were traced back to the ship. The Amundsen, named for the Norwegian man who became the first explorer to reach the South Pole, had become one of the worst Covid super-spreader events to strike Norway, according to a tabulation compiled by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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