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Publish date: August 23, 2010
Written by: Anne Karin Sæther
Translated by: Charles Digges
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By tradition, Bellona is present at the giant conference and exhibition Offhore Northern Seas in Stavanger. Yesterday, on Monday, Bellona organized a seminar called “Petroholic Rehab,” and today, Bellona opened its stand in the exhibition hall by the same name.
“For more than 40 years Norway has chosen to make itself dependent on oil. Now we need to rehab, “said Bellona Vice-President Marius Holm.
Norway, as small a country as it is, accounts for nearly three percent of global CO2 emission, through its export of oil and gas.
Norway’s dependence on oil money not only ensures huge CO2 emissions, but also makes it harder to make a significant shift to more renewable energy and energy efficiency.
“Norwegian politicians must realize that we need to scale down the oil industry, and it must be done through, among other things, protecting vulnerable areas along the coast from oil operations, and cutting subsidies to the oil industry, “says Holm, adding, “There is less and less oil and gas, and if we do not prepare for the transition to the renewable community, the harder it will be for Norway when it runs empty on oil and gas.
Download the 12 steps to Petraholic Recovery to the right.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.