Nature and Youth – Eye on the Arctic

Cyber-1 ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General Highlights Norway

Norway expands Arctic drilling, environmentalists worried

9 May 201811 May 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic drilling, atmosphere, Barents, CO2, conservation, drilling, energy, environment, Greenpeace, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, natural resources, Nature and Youth, Norway, oil and gas, oil industry, oil platform, pollution, sea ice, Terje Søviknes

Strongly criticized by environmental groups, Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy announces 56 new blocks in the Barents Sea. “Awarding

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Norway issues a record number of new offshore drilling licenses – environmentalists rage

18 January 2018 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments AkerBP, Barents Sea, ConocoPhilips, environment, Jan Mayen, Lofoten archipelago, Lundin, Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, natural resources, Nature and Youth, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Statoil

At the same time as the petro-sceptical Liberal Party joins the ruling government coalition, Norway’s oil minister announces a record

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Environmental group Aetas declared ‘foreign agent’ in Russia

5 September 2017 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arkhangelsk, Barents cooperation, Nature and Youth, Norway

Ecological organization in Arkhangelsk shuts down its activities. Wrongdoings? Cooperated with a youth environmental group in Norway. On September 1,

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ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General Norway

Climate trial against Norway to start in November

16 February 2017 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments fossil fuels, Greenpeace, Nature and Youth, oil drilling, Oslo

Greenpeace and Nature and Youth intend to put a stop to upcoming drilling in the Barents Sea. The Oslo City

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