More than 1,700 people left the Church of Norway since it demanded a stop to oil exploration
A week has passed since the Church of Norway called for an end to oil exploration. Since then, more than 1,700 people have left the…
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Hundreds of people left the Church of Norway one day after it demanded a stop to oil exploration
A total of 434 people left the Church of Norway the day after it called for an end to further oil and gas exploration activity…
Church of Norway asks government to stop oil exploration
The Church of Norway is asking the Norwegian government to stop oil exploration. Progress Party (FRP) leader Sylvi Listhaug asks the Church to stop behaving…
Leaders of Norwegian Christian organizations: Oil exploration is not a matter of faith
Multiple leaders of Christian organizations in Norway don’t think oil exploration is a matter of faith. The Norwegian Lutheran Mission is among those who do…
The majority of Norwegians want oil exploration activities to continue, new study shows
A total of 54% of people surveyed in a recent Respons Analyze poll stated that they agree with the government’s policy of continuing oil and…
Norway’s United Federation of Trade Unions plans to fight hard for continued oil exploration
The leader of Norway’s United Federation of Trade Unions (Fellesforbundet), Jørn Eggum, is against stopping oil exploration on the Norwegian shelf and has no faith…
New applications: 31 companies want to look for more oil and gas on the Norwegian continental shelf
The Norwegian government has received applications for exploration activities on the Norwegian continental shelf from 31 different companies. Minister of Petroleum and Energy Tina Bru…
New survey: 57% of people in Rogaland want oil and gas exploration in Norway to continue
The skepticism towards continued oil and gas exploration is growing in Rogaland, a new survey that Respons Analysis has carried out for the newspaper Stavanger…
Labor Party says no to new large oil exploration operations on the Norwegian continental shelf
Labor Party (AP) leader Jonas Gahr Støre is against large, new oil exploration operations on the Norwegian shelf but wants to continue mapping existing fields….
Une Bastholm fears oil compromise: “It’s a diversion maneuver”
Green Party (MDG) leader Une Bastholm has warned the other environmental parties in the Norwegian parliament (Storting) against accepting an oil exploration stop that is…
Majority of Oslo residents want to cut oil exploration in Norway
While a majority of people in Norway on a national level want the country to continue looking for oil, a majority of residents of Oslo…
Majority of Norwegians want oil exploration in Norway to continue, new survey shows
A clear majority of the population believes that Norway should continue with oil exploration activities, according to a survey Norstat has carried out for Norwegian…
Norway’s new energy plan: Oil exploration will continue
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservative Party) believes that the oil peak has been reached for Norway. But exploration will continue. In the white paper “Energy…
Norway receives large number of applications for oil exploration on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has received a large number of applications from 33 oil companies in the licensing round Awards in Predefined…
