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Norway's Arctic idyll shivers at oil plans
2013-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Oil companies seeking new Arctic areas for exploration face a battle with environmentalists, fishermen and hotel owners over Norwegian islands where jagged snow-capped peaks rise sheer from the sea. With oil production falling to a 25-year low this year and the state depending on oil revenues, Norway's ruling Labour Party is warming to drilling in Lofoten's pristine waters, setting up the issue as the year's biggest political fight ahead of elections in September. "We've already got the winning...
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Norways TCM launches international carbon capture and storage test centre network
2013-02-01 01:00:00| Power Technology
CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM), a Norway-based carbon capture testing facility, has formed an international test centre network for carbon capture and storage (CCS) test facilities across the world.
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Weaker Global Warming Seen in Study Promoted by Norway's Research Council
2013-01-26 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Purveyors of climate doubt have seized on a news release from the Research Council of Norway with this provocative title: "Global warming less extreme than feared?" The release describes new research finding that global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases will be on the low end of the persistently wide spread of projections by other research groups. (There`s a presentation describing the work below.) This may well end up being the case (I`d give it higher than even odds; even so, that...
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Norway's Statoil says 2 missing workers in Algeria terror attack confirmed dead
2013-01-25 16:15:19| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Norwegian energy company Statoil ASA says two Norwegian employees missing after a terror attack on a gas plant in Algeria have been confirmed dead.
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Norwegian Sea can hold 100 years of Norway's CO2 emissions: NPD
2013-01-25 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Norway could store 100 times its annual emissions of carbon dioxide under the Norwegian Sea to help fight climate change, adding to its even bigger potential under the North Sea, an official report showed on Friday. The findings are most relevant for natural gas finds such as the Sleipner field in the North Sea, where the gas contains high levels of carbon dioxide. Norway has imposed taxes on carbon emissions since 1991 as part of efforts to limit climate change. An atlas by the Norwegian...
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