WWF: Norway must immediately stop all new exploration for oil and gas
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Norway must immediately stop all new oil and gas exploration. We are running out of time,…
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Norway must immediately stop all new oil and gas exploration. We are running out of time,…
Stavanger is so much more than just the nation’s oil capital. Awarded the 2008 European Capital of Culture, this once industrial city has blossomed into…
Norway must look for more oil and gas due to the Ukraine crisis and the new relationship between Europe and Russia, the Conservatives (H) and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Greenland’s left-wing government is stopping all oil exploration activities in what it describes as “a natural step in the fight against climate change.” Oil has…
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…
The 61 production licenses are located in the North Sea (34), the Norwegian Sea (24), and the Barents Sea (3). “I am pleased to offer…
In a consultation statement, the Norwegian Environment Agency warns that new oil and gas fields in the Barents Sea may be profitable for the oil…
Norway should continue to drill for oil and gas. This is what 49 percent of the Norwegians said in a survey by Sentio Research commissioned…
Several of Arbeiderpartiet’s (Arp’s) county councillors said no this week to impact assessments for oil activity outside Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja. A statement from…
The Liberals demands protection against oil exploration in the North The Liberals still require protection of Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja if the party is to…