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Norwayâs Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling The top court ruled against environmental groups Tuesday, saying the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling for offshore oil. Offshore oilfield platforms in the North Sea off Norway.Credit.Ints Kalnins/Reuters Dec. 22, 2020 Norwayâs Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an effort, based on the countryâs constitutional right to a clean environment, to invalidate licenses for new oil exploration in the Arctic, allowing drilling to continue and signaling to environmental groups that it would not interfere in climate politics. In its decision, the court ruled 11 to 4 in favor of the state, a victory for Norwayâs formidable oil industry. The court concluded that a set of oil drilling permits in the Arctic, given in 2016, were not in breach of either the Norwegian Constitutionâs right to a clean environment or the European Convention on Human Rights. The judg ....