Ice-Blog: Arctic Oil – a white elephant?
The conference: Arctic Frontiers has attracted a record number of participants this year and huge media interest. For the first time in
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Scandinavian Arctic should cooperate more: report
TROMSØ: The Scandinavian Arctic can rise to become the most innovative, industrious and environmentally friendly growth region in Europe, a
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Will Barents oil investments be financial disaster?
TROMSØ: To drill or not to drill, that’s the Arctic Frontiers question of the year. Investor Jens-Ulltveit-Moe warns Troms and
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Record year for Norwegian seafood exports
Despite the collapse of the Russian market, exports of Norwegian seafood set new records in 2014. The total value of
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Stockholm cleans up and passes air quality test
The Swedish capital has passed EU air quality standards for the first time, thanks in part to a ban on
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Energy consumption at 30-year low in Sweden
Warm weather and a weak European economy brought a dip in Swedish electric energy use in 2014. Energy-consumption levels have
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Seismic mapping of Russian Arctic will continue — Rosneft
The state-owned oil company in 2015 intends to conduct seismic mapping of seven fields in the Pechora Sea. During a public
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Finland appreciated in Karelia despite sanctions, interviews show
The tightening sanctions measures affecting Russian-Finnish relations have had minimal impact on Karelian Russians, according to interviews with citizens of
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Duma foreign affairs committee chief: Finland willing to end sanctions
Finland is suffering economically as a result of sanctions imposed against Russia by the European Union and is willing to
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“Cold war looming, sanctions our best bet,” says Finland’s PM
Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says Finland needs to stay close to the European Union but also maintain good ties with
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Climate change could mean more winter precipitation, summer heatwaves for Finland
Climate change could mean more stuff coming down from the sky during the Finnish winter, according to director general of
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Ice-Blog: Can UN and EU take the heat off Alaska?
It is with a heavy heart that I write this first blog post since my holiday, catching up with the
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Sweden still to define climate position ahead of EU summit
Despite earlier demands for Sweden to lead the fight against climate change, the red-green coalition government has no position on
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No Norwegian services to Russian Arctic offshore oil
Norway’s foreign minister Børge Brende says Norway joins the restrictive measures against Russia introduced by EU earlier in September. The
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Russian sanctions put tons of Swedish cheese in peril
Thousands of tons of Swedish cheese are sitting in warehouses after being banned from Russia. Swedish cheesemakers have applied to
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