Centre Party’s deputy Borten Moe – Labor Party goes too far

– I even want a more cautious approach than the Labor advocates, primarily because we should listen to the fishermen, says Ola Borten Moe to Trønder-newspaper.

Centre Party’s deputy Ola Borten Moe, who is no development delay, says Labor’s program committee is in excess irascible oil porridge.

In the political environment, no one is directly surprised that Labor’s program committee goes on to examine the impacts of petroleum activities in the disputed waters.

This has long been Labor Party policy, even if the coalition government is holding back on this election period.

Will be more careful

Centre Party has not closed these areas permanently, so SV has done, but oil and energy Borten Moe goes forward more cautious than Labor Party(AP)

– I even want a more cautious approach than the Labor advocates, primarily because we should listen to the fishermen, says Ola Borten Moe to Trønder-newspaper.

He will gently turn the two group licenses in Nordland VI, which has been dormant since 1994. They constitute 74 per cent of the field. Q. But will not open new ones in the next four years.

To Trønder newspaper says Borten Moe that this is enough, combined with the opening of large areas in the Barents Sea and around Jan Mayen.

He would not comment on the internal process of the Labour Party

Resistance and Support

The leak from the Labor Party’s program committee, where AUF leader Eskil Pedersen was alone in his opposition to an impact assessment, was met with a clear rejection of Socialist Left Party, Liberals and Christian Democrats. No it will hear of such an opening.

Conservative Party and the Progress Party is the Labor side, as is the NHO-affiliated association Norwegian oil and gas, former OLF.

Managing Director Gro Brækken recalls that a clear majority in Parliament is behind the desire for an impact assessment. She believes that it does not automatically lead to exploration and drilling.

Requires ultimatum

General Nina Jensen, WWF asks minor parties prepare for the voters that they will not participate in a civil or Red-Green government that opens the narrow shelf for oil operations. She asks them to set an ultimatum.

– Now we are totally dependent minor parties in the Norwegian policy to prevent oil drilling in these valuable areas become a reality, says Jensen said.

But none of the three parties would Thursday the coalition against oil passage. There will be face to face in any negotiations after the election. In interview after interview promises both Environment Bård Vegar Solhjell (SV) and party leader Audun Solbakken that SV should never fail Lofoten.

– There is no doubt about the party’s stance. But I will not go into a public discussion about what we do if we do not get through. It is to start at the wrong end. We’ve done it twice before and will do it again, says SV leader Audun Lysbakken NTB.

Full protection

Liberal deputy leader Ola Elvestuen is crystal clear that the unique nature and the vulnerable fish stocks are so important that they will cherish areas. He still will not WWF ultimatum requesting.

– Left is as clear as we can be. This is one of our most important issues. We shall use the position we get after the election, to gain support for our policy. It’s not about simple statements now, says Elvestuen.

KrF environmental policy spokesman Kjell Ingolf Ropstad does not preclude an ultimatum from the Christian Democratic Party, but the party is not ready to make this claim now.

– Oil production in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja may be the case that means that we do not go into government. But the party has not rooted this today. We have not yet added strategy for what should be the most important issues in the campaign and in any government negotiations, says Ropstad NTB.

HERE IS THE ENTIRE LABOR PARTY’S PROGRAM COMMITTEE DECISION

“Labor will facilitate the development of the petroleum industry in the north and open for exploration in the areas near the new border with Russia that were contested, if the impact assessment for the area provides the basis for it.”
“Labor advocates environmental impact of petroleum activities in the unopened part of Nordland 6 and 7 in the fields Nordland and Troms 2 and then take a position on the issue of petroleum activities in these areas.”
“As the industry developed into new areas, these areas are also involved in the supplier industry so that the industry provides new local effects as it moves north. As much as ripple is about what we demand from oil companies, so it’s also about how we set a region capable of creating and utilizing ripple when the industry is going. ”
Source: Labor Party

 

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Full oil drilling discord in the Norwegian government

FULL discord: it is full of discord in the government on the issue of oil drilling in the North in Norway. From left: Socialist Left Party leader Audun Lysbakken, Party deputy leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and parliamentary leader of the Labor Party, Helga Pedersen.

Socialist Left Party(SV) says it’s not realistic to go with the oil drilling in Norway’s North’s coast.

 

SV leader Audun Lysbakken says that the party never going to agree on oil drilling in the North as long as they are in government.

– SV will never fail Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja says Lysbakken to TV 2

Ready for a new battle

SV leader said that the party stands immovable in question a number of times has come up in the red-green government cooperation.

– We have to fight to keep the oil industry away from these areas as long as we’ve been in government, and we have won. We have great confidence and a lot of the back and we are going to succeed again, says Lysbakken.

Also Deputy Inga Marte Thorkildsen is crystal clear about where the party is in the oil drilling issue.

– SV turn ring on the last large cod. We choose environmentally front oil drilling in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja She wrote on Twitter.

Minister Bård Vegar Solhjell will not currently come with an ultimatum to the government partner Labour, but said to ABC News that they plan to win the party’s kampsak in the future.

– I’m Environment Minister in a government that is against drilling in these areas, said Solhjell.

A natural step

Wednesday adopted the program in Labor to enter for a study of oil drilling on the North’s coast. The party program shall be considered at the congress in the spring.

The program committee meeting was only the AUF leader Pedersen Eskild who dissented, according to NRK.

Chairman of the Programme Committee and parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, Helga Pedersen, call program proposal for a natural next step after the government has collected knowledge of the environment, potential employment effects and consequences for the fishing industry if one were to open for exploration.

– What we advocate is to conduct an environmental impact assessment in the next period and then decide whether to open for petroleum operations, says Pedersen to TV 2

She believes that they have now clarified that the areas in question are more vulnerable than others where there is already drilling.

The proposal from the program to be voted on at the congress.

Going against oil drilling

The third government party in the coalition cooperation, the Centre has so during Wednesday been silent on the issue in the media.

But the draft party program that was presented last week, there is little evidence that they will appease Labor.

“The Center will not open new areas for petroleum exploration in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja outside and Møre blocks,” said the draft party program that will be voted on at the Centre Party congress in the spring.

Acting Trygve Slagsvold Vedum was one of five on the program that dissented for the proposal should be specified with 6 Nordland, Troms and Nordland 7 2

Energy Policy Advocate at the Center, Erling Sande, told tv2.no that adopting an environmental impact assessment is clearly a step in a process to open for oil exploration.

– In almost 100 percent of cases have an impact led to an opening. I think it is more realistic to discuss the core of this question, but it may be more comfortable talking about impact.

Sande does not deny that there are disagreements within the party, but said it depends on the various fronts have different viewpoints. Some will protect the fishery, while others will slow the recovery of oil and gas.

– Now the program said with scarce possible margin said that it will re-open some of the areas. Out in the party is enough resistance greater than in the program, says Sande.

After Labor’s program proposals became known Wednesday night reactions poured in from both politicians and not least environmental organizations.

Want lasting protection

By opposition parties yesterday Left strongly opposed the proposal from the Labour Party.

Deputy John Elvestuen are very disappointed the plans of the ruling party, yet he is not surprised.

Elvestuen told TV 2 that the Labour Party did not want this report to determine whether to start with oil, but how.

– I do not think one should be naive in relation to what is Labor’s intention.

Left For permanent protection of areas of consideration for nature and fishing.

– If we are to protect these vulnerable marine habitats including important spawning areas for cod. What should one cherish, says Elvestuen.

Progress believes that Stoltenberg might as well be scrapping SV as a government partner.

– Labor-management to signal what is important to employees SV-ers in the ministries, or to ensure growth and development in a country struggling with depopulation and unemployment, said Progress Energy’s spokesperson Per-Willy Amundsen said.

 

COMPLETELY DISAGREE: Liberal deputy Ola Elvestuen think Labor has only a measure of an oil study. It is to find out how it can be done and not whether it can be done.

 

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Prime Minister in Norway saying YES for oil drilling in Lofoten

Labor Party will open Lofoten in the next period

Turns: Two years ago, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference to announce that the government would study the impact oil drilling off Lofoten. Now the program committee in his own party in order to open areas for oil drilling.

A large majority of Labor Party’s program committee is in favor of opening the Lofoten area for oil exploration over the next four years, according to NRK.

Labor signed in 2011 a compromise with Socialist Left Party and Centre Party not to open areas off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja in this parliamentary term. This was seen as a victory for conservation interests, particularly those of Socialist Left Party.

AUF against

Now the program goes on to examine the impact these areas in the next four years. Only AUF leader Eskil Pedersen dissented, according to NRK.

Labor’s deputy leader Helga Pedersen, who heads the program, said that the decision on the opening of the petroleum industry will be made when the EIA is submitted.

Think of agreement

She acknowledges, however, that such a study in most cases leads to exploration and drilling.

– Since 2005, the three coalition parties had different views on petroleum policy. But we have repeatedly been able to find solutions. I am an optimist and believe that we will succeed this time too

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Christian Democratic Party in Norway rejects oil drilling in Lofoten

Christian Democratic Party reacted strongly to oil minister’s eagerness to drill for oil south of Lofoten.

Christian Democratic Party(CDP/KrF is critical to Ola Borten Moe attempts to further process the coup of the Lofoten, says Parliament Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (CDP) to Newspaper News Agency (ANB).

The reason is that oil minister Ola Borten Moe has been advocated to “proceed with the activity” in some part of the area Nordland 6 which was opened in 1994 but closed by political Stoltenberg I Government in 2001. Opened it accounts for three quarters of Nordland 6, but farther from land.

Opened part of Nordland 6 is the most vulnerable area. It was closed in 2001 because of uncertainty about the effects of oil activities on fisheries and the environment. This uncertainty is still there. Nordland 6 should be treated the same way as the unopened areas, says Christian Democrat spokesman, pointing to the other areas off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

Christian Democrat spokesman has asked the minister about which new impact for the opened parts of Nordland and received the answer that it is not necessary. In these areas it is “factually and legally” possible to have petroleum in the next parliamentary term, said the response from the oil and energy minister.

The response from Ola Borten Moe clarifies that he and the government thinks it can start drilling in Nordland 6 to fall. From experience we know that Q-minister seems to have planned this. Therefore, it may seem like the government right now, half a year before the election, has entered into a compromise on Lofoten, says Ropstad.

– It is bold of the Center to go to war against the fishermen of the most sensitive and controversial area off Lofoten. Knowledge gathering shows that the largest petroleum resources are expected to be in Nordland 6, so this is a clear priority ahead of fish oil, fossil front renewable resources, says Christian Democrat political environment spokesman.

He points out that there are over 6,500 jobs in the fishing and tourism industry in Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

– On the other hand, the maximum oil industry could provide 1,100 jobs, says Kjell Ingolf Ropstad. (ANB)

 

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Global Warming: Summer 2013 forecasts; Wetter and warmer in Norway

You do not get many such days in a row this summer

Meteorologist manager: wetter and warmer. And soon there may be ice-free summer in the Arctic.

Head of climate scientists at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute know very much about what has happened to the weather and climate since 1900. And they have many clear predictions about what will happen in the coming decades.

But the next few months they dare not give one little hint – neither on Easter or even less about the summer holidays 2013.

– The only thing we can say is reasonably certain that it will be both wetter and warmer future with greater shifts than it has been in recent years. Bygevær will turn to more frequent, making it unlikely that long-term solperidoer that many of us have been accustomed to. Unfortunately I can not give any good explanation. But this I hope to be able to explain to you more about the age at home in 2050, said director Anton Eliassen (67) most seriously and a little joke when he presented the 2012 accounts (pdf file) for weather and climate of the day.

For it is becoming an increasingly difficult profession to be a meteorologist, particularly northern Europe, says chief meteorologist. The weather across much of the globe can be interpreted directly by the so-called El Nino effect – the relationship between ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific.

But it is not our latitudes, where an increasing number of uncertain factors affects the weather.

Very, very clear increase

– It is a very, very clear increase in temperature in Norway since 1980, about two degrees. And there is an even clearer trend over North and the Arctic. We have reliable measurements from Svalbard since 1900, and the temperature has already increased by four degrees.

– With the trend we have seen over the last five or six years, it will soon be six degrees warmer in the North Pole, says the world-renowned air pollution, weather and climate scientist.

He describes it as “absolutely sure” that the North will change the character in a few years due to melting ice – partly as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and partly because of meteorological “natural” conditions.

New use

– It will not be that far into the future before people can utilize these areas to a greater extent than today,
predicts Eliassen.

Since 1900, rainfall over the Norwegian mainland increased by 20 percent.

2010 was a dry year in Norway, 2011 was wet and 2012 ended up being a normal average despite extreme fluctuations of heat and rain.

Warmest March ever recorded

March 2012 was the warmest March-month in Norway at any time since records began in 1900.

The national average was 4.3 degrees above average. Southern and Eastern had up to 7 degrees warmer than normal marsvær.

Thus, it was sky-high expectations for a long and hot summer, although meteorologists did not throw in a heat wave.

New explanation

In July and the joint got cold shower with colder high summer across the country except the western parts of southern Norway and parts of central Norway. Eastern and parts of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark coastal areas received twice as much rain as normal in July.

Six months later, the climate scientist Rasmus Benestad been on the trail of a possible explanation for the wet summer of 2012.

– North Atlantic off Newfoundland had its warmest year since records began in 1853. This led to the accelerated melting of sea ice. In July last year, it was also quite exceptional melting ice in Greenland.

– What we do know is that more water and higher temperatures mean more rain clouds. This melting may also have affected ocean currents and weather in our areas. But we still know nothing certain about, Benestad says to Dagbladet.

“Bear Bastard”

He knows which animal he would not have been in those days, if there had been a problem. Namely bears.

– More Canadian colleagues talking about the Arctic will be ice-free in summer surface within a few years.

– Then the bears, at best for them, set up on the mainland. My colleagues talking about prizzley – apparently a cross between polar bears and brown grizzly bear. I do not know from the species of the animal world, but it’s not weirder than that breeds mate, says climate scientist Rasmus Benestad.

The first hybrid bear was shot on the north coast of Canada in 2006. DNA tests showed that his father was a landfast grizzly and a polar bear mother.

Here you can see pictures and read about student Kristian Brandhøys unique encounter with polar bears north of Svalbard in summer 2011.

“Alp-shock”

Climate Scientist Benstad sitting most deepened over their computers at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

A field trip to the Swiss Alps last summer made ​​an impression.

– Der talked known people that they could see the glaciers melt. Then we remember that glaciers in the mountains gets along better because they lie on the cold rock. Sea ice is attacked both by hot air above and warm water unnafra. Those who want to visit the Maldives, you should do it in a few years, to say it that way, reflect climate scientist Rasmus Benestad.

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Norwegian professor believes that families should only have 1 child

Good intentions: Climate Report is chock full of good intentions, but the measures are too few and not binding enough that climate settlement from 2008 can be met, according to Professor of Climate Strategy at BI, Jorgen Randers.

Professor believes families should have only one child

The Norwegian professor Jørgen Randers believe that people should not have more than one child. It can save the environment, said the professor of climate strategy.

Randers is a former leader of Low Emissions who in 2006 delivered a series of radical proposals for how Norway could cut its national greenhouse gas emissions by between 50 and 90 percent by 2050, writes Our Country.

Now he thinks it needs to harder liquor.

– We are worse looking than four years ago. World emissions will go up to 2030, where there will be a peak. In 2050 we are back at the same level as today, so I think people in reality is not going to cut anything, he says to Technical Review.

Randers believe that the increasing level of prosperity will make the consumption of oil, coal and gas per person only will skyrocket, and therefore believe that future families should take responsibility for climate changes and limit themselves to one child.

– Ettbarnsfamilier to curb population growth and is part of the climate solution. My hope is that it may help some to have a world that is as similar as possible to the one we currently have, he says.

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Nuclear icebreaker boat frightens the Norwegian environmental organization Bellona

The Russian icebreaker, Rossiya, have course towards the Baltic Sea. The road runs along the Norwegian coast, and this morning was the icebreaker just west of Rost.

The 30-year-old nuclear icebreaker Rossiya going right now along the Norwegian coast. The environmental organization Bellona doesn’t  like the sound of it.

The Russian icebreaker, “Rossiya”, the course of the Baltic Sea. The road runs along the Norwegian coast, and this morning was the icebreaker just west of Rost.

– This boat is 30 years old. In Russia, they even said that this is probably the ship’s last trip, says Nils Bohmer in Bellona.

 

Radioactivity:

The Bellona fears most is the numerous accidents this type of ship has been involved in.

– Over the past few years there have been some accidents involving these vessels. The worst that can happen is that this icebreaker harbors on the shore somewhere along the Norwegian coast. We are talking about a lot of radioactivity, said Bohmer.

Two years ago, two Russian icebreakers involved in accidents. The ship “Vajgatsj” caught fire at Siberia, and two people died. Earlier that year, nuclear icebreaker “Taimyr” affected by radioactive leaks.

– Last year there were a number of fire on Russian nuclear icebreakers when they worked out in Siberia, says Bohmer to nrk.no.

Watching over:

Bellona said the only thing we can do is to follow the ship along the journey.

– The Coast Guard will monitor the mission as long as the vessel is in Norwegian waters, says Ane Eide Kjærås the emergency department.

The vessel is at a speed of 17.3 knots, and is 200 km/110 Nm from shore.

 

 

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EU state warns Norway against oil drilling in Lofoten

EU energy director is skeptical in Norwegian Arctic plans.

European Commission Director General for Energy, Philip Lowe, warns against oil drilling off Lofoten and in the Arctic.

– The more oil we extract from the soil, the greater the risk, both financially and environmentally, because you have to move into the increasingly dangerous waters. No one should embark on oil drilling in the Arctic without consulting their partners, Lowe says to Dagbladet.

He will not make the distinction between Lofoten and arctic regions further north.

In Arctic conflict

t’s not the first time EU warns Norway against drilling in the North. In September last year, the European Parliament’s environment committee on cessation of oil drilling in the Arctic. Then traveled Secretary Per Rune Henriksen of Petroleum and Energy to Brussels and spoke EU opposite. To Nationen he said that “it is almost as if we were to express an opinion on camel running in the Sahara, which we do not have anything to do,” but nevertheless felt that it was important to be in dialogue with the EU.

International treaties stipulate that resource extraction on the shelf is Shelf state responsibility. Norway has driven oil and gas in areas that can be defined as the arctic in 30 years, but the company is moving ever further north. Last fall, said both Ola Borten Moe and Secretary Espen Barth Eide positively about drilling further north in the Arctic. The government sent out an impact assessment on Jan Mayen hearing, and the case shall refer the matter to Parliament before Easter. Environmental authorities said yesterday that they are negative. Front parliamentary elections will be a new debate about oil drilling off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja. On both sides, the supporters and opponents. Conservatives and the Progress Party is for, while the Liberals and Christian Democrats are opposed. A red-green policy has been to allow areas to be, but Ola Borten Moe said in November that he wants activity outside Lofoten.

Want the gas

Lowe’s otherwise very positive for Norwegian gas, and says to Dagbladet that it will play an important role as a reserve when the EU will increasingly be getting their power from wind and solar, although the EU has a vision to reduce emissions from the power sector to nearly zero by 2050.

– I think the EU’s gas imports from Norway will increase. The gas can also have other uses, such as in transportation, he said.

 

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