Norway's Elections and the Alberta Tar Sands
September 14, 2009 1 min. read

What’s one got to do with the other?  Fair question.   I wrote about this relationship in May here. Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, has a big stake in the tar sands, and a number of leading Norwegian politicians and their parties want them out.  Many, if not most Norwegians, infinitely to their credit, want to […]

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Energy at the World's End
February 22, 2009 5 min. read

The Wall Street Journal has posted an in-depth look at the controversy surrounding Norwegian energy company StatoilHydro’s Snoehvit project. Since 2002, the company, of which the national government owns a majority stake, has been trying to procure natural gas from the seafloor beneath the Barents Sea. Operations at Snoehvit, whose name means “snow white” in […]

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