A warned catastrophe: The oil slick in Lofoten in Norway 2025 day-by-day.

Today it is 25 years since the Exxon Valdez. Experience shows long-term effects of the oil slick, in addition to the acute injuries. This will affect how we think about oil drilling in the North. After the Exxon Valdez, the world has also seen several major oil disasters, most recently in the Gulf of Mexico. In Norway, the cargo ships Full City and Godafoss run aground and shown that even small oil spills are difficult to handle.

Based on experience, new knowledge, and reports on the environmental risks associated with the petroleum industry and oil spill presents Naturvernforbundet here a day-by-day scenario for a hypothetical oil spill in northern Norway. At the bottom of the page you will find links to more information about lessons learned from the Exxon Valdez. Velbekomme, and let it not happen again!

 

Day 1, April 2025

An oil rig in Røstbanken has received a sharp kicks. Pressure in the reservoir has destroyed parts of the equipment, there is a gas alarm. The oil company tells the media that the rig is about to be evacuated, the production closed and there are no serious injuries. Coast Guard is on the way, and Nofo, the oil industry’s oil contingency has already vessels in the area.

 

Day 2: Government’s press conference. There is considerable confusion about the situation. From the public in small boats and fishermen are reports of an oil film on the water throughout the area towards Lofotodden and around seabird colonies on Værøy and Voice . Oil and environment ministers have canceled all appointments the next day to deal with the situation . The prime minister has “full confidence that safety is maintained and the responsible authorities are now making every effort to gain control of the serious situation . ” Oil rig is now without a crew on board and several remote systems are inoperative. The minister talks about full oil emergency mobilization. It is already laid out booms around the rig but little sign of oil. Oil Collector Ship is in place . Environmental organizations asking about the oil on the water toward Værøy and Rost may come from a subsea blowout. An environmental activist being ejected from the press conference after standing and waving an oil contaminated bird was picked up by the sea at Rost already day 1 We are working intensively to scout for oil slick from airplanes . The weather is good, but low pressure and powerful winds are expected into .

Day 3 : It blows up the air . NCA reports the work to soak up partly large oil slicks at sea and near shore . Petroleum Operating Scenarios are created , but it is uncertain whether the oil will hit the country . IUA – one , the inter-municipal pollution emergency action units are mobilized along the coast of Nordland and Troms. Lens Save and crew mobilized. The public is urged to stay away from areas with visible oil spills , and let be calling NCA switchboard capacity is blown .

Day 4 Morning News: The oil company holds a press conference . It has been used ROV around the drill site , and clear that it concerns a subsea blowout not unlike the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. There is uncertainty about how much oil runs out. It’s certainly about the largest oil spill in Norway in recent times. We work from the oil company to implement an operation to stop the blowout , but this will take several days or weeks to put in place .

The night wind and waves have swept large amounts of oil on land in exposed bays and coves on Voice and outside of the Moskenesøya . Viltnemdene are out and shoot the oil -damaged birds they find on land , in violation of the Environment Directorate directions that they should be collected before euthanasia . The crews in the field looks so much oil contaminated bird that collection is considered as totally unrealistic.

Civil Defence and NCA beach cleaning team is mobilized , but it is still uncertain where they should be inserted . The specially trained force is a total of 150 men . They can both suck up the oil from the sea in the bays and remove oil on land to prevent it taken by the tide and brought back to sea. Environment Directorate has asked that priority be given around the bird cliffs where large numbers of birds are collected and claims to have received the equipment in some bays.

Day 4 Dinner time : Environment Directorate has been birdwatchers out by helicopter over beaches and nesting . There are reports of a lot of oil , and the head of the directorate states that this is a huge environmental disaster. A number of large flakes are observed both inside and outside of Lofoten and runs fast with the coastal north and the country . The flakes moves above and below the water surface and the picture is very unclear . NCA and Nofo priority now is to try and capture the most close to the spill site , and to close off bays and inlets to harbors and vulnerable habitats .

Day 5 : Disaster is a fact and rolls in all media. It is believed to be a complete blowout that could potentially last for weeks. Heavy brown black waves rolling in oil on all exposed places in Lofoten and Vesterålen. More oil spill equipment is on track action centers , all local booms are already posted . There are problems with logistics in field action areas. All accommodation capacity is overloaded and Civil Defence set up tents for their people . Municipalities complain of confusion about who can get booms and that there are large amounts of unused booms in the central repository . A Lofoten mayor is outraged : ” I spend more time trying to find out who is responsible action management than on fighting the oil spill .”

Photos of oil contaminated puffins with the characteristic papegøyenebbene go worldwide . Ports of Lofoten and Værøy and Voice dotted oiled birds that are pressed into the fjord of oil and weather. Journalists from a number of countries are in place . Professionals dare not estimate how many thousands of birds that are already dead . There are estimated to be a few million puffins, as well as many other species , the areas which are now endangered . In the seabird colonies on the Voice tells ornithologists about horror scenes where over half of the birds they see with binoculars sitting and press inaccessible places up in the hills with clear oil spots on the plumage . Viltnemdene locally no longer has the capacity to take away avskytningen the injured bird. Several of the men have already been in fields around the clock for three days , bleeding nosebleeds and vomiting . They are strongly influenced by the experiences and needs rest .

Day 7 : A now near continuous oil slick spreads upwards along the coast and spill to every nook and cranny in the flow -prone areas . Local oil spill response crews are in full swing close to all coastal towns , blocking the strait and narrow fjord system so the oil does not get spread in there, but there is a lack of equipment.

From Central Europe are reports that large loads of cod and salmon received this week disposed to show consumers that it is not sold contaminated fish. Fisker teams now involved in assisting with the transportation of oil spill response crews and equipment into the affected areas. All commercial fishing and Fiskesalg in Nordland and Troms assessed stopped by Fisheries and Agriculture.

Day 8 : The Prime Minister is in place in Svolvær . And declared that all Coast Guard vessels and oil spill response vessels in the Nordic countries are in place or on the way . Specially designed ships to take up oil at sea are heading north from Spain and across the Atlantic from Canada and the United States . The vessels have experience from past disasters. Russia has offered the assistance of suitable vessels in its northern fleet and nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet , but the Norwegian government is awaiting the situation . Oil Minister is now leading a crisis team to stop the blowout , and try to find experts out there who can help. It is expected that the oil that has leaked will reach Tromsø and Finnmark coast in full if not many days , and it’s taken full alert there.

International environmental groups have gone out with a common requirement that all oil activity of Møre and north shut down temporarily. The main argument is that all the oil vessels and oil waste company now needed to deal with the oil spill . There is a great lack of other suitable vessel, and the capacity for storage of recovered oily water in the region is already blown . The government has rejected the proposal and instead requested a tanker that buffer pool .

Day 9 : Environment Directorate has considered urgent application by the NCA and the oil company about the use of chemicals to dissolve the oil slick , but has today rejected the application . Marine research was very negative because it is now in this area are large amounts of cod eggs high in the water that could be very adversely affected by chemical treatment of plumes of oil . In addition, one can not risk that oil after dispersion will sink down and lie on top of the large conserved coral reefs in the area. Bellona and Naturvernforbundet looking boat in the spill area says the basis of observations of water samples from different depths suspect someone already having tested a large amount of unknown chemicals to dissolve the oil. The suspicion is directed to supply the vessels that are able to bet around the rig site , and an American oil chemical supplier .

Day 12 : Most harbors , beaches and pier facilities in Lofoten and Vesterålen is full of major and minor oil slick that spill to vessels and equipment. Bad weather and power reduces the local oil link the effect to near zero. The oil flows both within and outside the booms.

Day 14 : The owners of a total of several hundred breeding cages in Nordland , Troms and Finnmark trying to move plants, but already coming oil after them rapidly and accumulate in quiet coves which are the mobile facilities’ places of refuge . The first plants obtained oil has started emergency slaughter by order of the FSA .

Scientists fear oil spill could be disastrous for a number of seabird populations . They recall that it should only be a small spot of oil on the plumage of feathers that the heat insulating capacity is considerably reduced so that the bird freezing to death by cold water from entering. They remind especially that dark death rates are large , as much dead bird disappears at sea or being taken by scavengers without ever being found and recorded. Several places along the coast there are reports now about eagles and fox sisters around the shoreline , obviously sick, poisoned by oil contaminated prey.

Day 15 : The oil has gone out from the shore at the South Island at a speed of 2 kilometers per hour. Finnmark cross your fingers and hold your breath . Marine scientist regret : It is natural, – the coastal current turns north here , but come back NE of the South Island near Hammerfest . South along the coast , it is now difficult to find birds that are not oily .

The massive popular mobilization and virtually emergency in coastal communities , where everyone contributes what they can to stop or clean up oil, is about to go into resignation and depression. It is difficult to see how it works. Even the Prime Minister has been on TV and expressed great frustration that the blowout is not yet stopped , and how powerless we are . The churches are open around the clock in several towns. People need a focal point.

The government promises that coastal communities should have the support they need to get back on their feet , but the priority date must be to stop the spill and limit the damage as possible .

Day 70: The blowout was stopped after 5 weeks and several unsuccessful attempts, and oil hit almost every vulnerable nature of locality as far north as Hjelmsøy in Finnmark. Prohibition on the sale of fish is lifted today . The ban on the sale of shellfish still apply. The fishermen’s organizations have asked the fishermen to wait until it is cleared with the government on the special compensation for whaling still continuing. You want a longer fishing moratorium until it is clear that there are some new flakes to the coast . Otherwise, it could harm the market’s perception of how clean the Norwegian fish are.

Day 80: Duck and auks which until now have survived the oil disaster is now entering a new katastrofetid . Now start moulting , ie moulting means that birds can not rise from sea level of 3-7 weeks. Auks located offshore and is prone to minor oil slick and thin oil film which still operates in this area . Ducks and geese congregate in concentrated moulting flocks in shallow waters along the coast. Environment Directorate notes that there is no area in western Finnmark suitable for the year and calls for volunteers nedskytning of injured and emaciated birds. Directorate will implement a pilot with the relocation of the rarest species , which has never been done in this country før.Naturvernforbundet in Østfold his project for the rehabilitation of injured wild oil in place for the job with expert teams, veterinarians and a container full of equipment. They began the laborious job of capturing and occupancy of rare bird species , one and one individual from one of the few fjords that is least loaded of oil . It is unclear where and when the birds can be released again .

1 year : Civil Defence volunteers and crew in the oil spill since the accident efforts to remove oil spill near towns and heavily used recreation and tourist places. Technical facilities at fish landing and ports are functional again . Cleanup crews , of which the majority of WWF’s beach clean- groups , have received no help of storms in winter on the vulnerable spots along the coast, but the shielded areas are still very soiled . In sheltered bays at the head of fjords see the seemingly good from a distance , but if one walks on the beach as you step through and get oil on the boots. Many of these will never be manually cleared, here you have to wait until nature has done the job in a few decades .

NCA , together with the Environment Directorate prepared an emergency plan for dealing with small oil slick which still operates in marine areas for the coming spring. These should be mocked and collected continuously.

Directorate has estimated these losses of seabirds in the first year :
– puffin 800,000
eider – 50000
– King Eider uncertain , probably 10,000
– Steller 5000 (including those who died of plumes of oil that drifted over to the Russian zone)
– guillemots 20,000
– shags and cormorants 7-8000

It is found 200 dead eagles and a handful of golden eagles .

The Directorate stated NO pup production of seals from Nordland and Finnmark last year when the areas where seals give birth was destroyed by the oil spill .

The same was true of birds residing in the beachfront in affected bays, not because nest sites was necessarily destroyed , but because it was not living life to eat on the beach.

No one knows what happened to whales and killer whales. Several oil spill sperm whale drifted ashore on Andoy in the summer but the cause of death is unclear. It is observed oil contaminated whales from planes and whale watching boats.

Aquaculture industry lawyers preparing insurance claims for several billion partly loss of equipment , production downtime and cleaning work.

Clean-up costs for coastal work , municipal authorities and private facilities as fish landing fast approaching ten billion. The government has guaranteed all over the state budget .

Norwegian authorities are considering how they legally should require reimbursement for both these cleanup costs , and unemployment benefits for thousands of workers in coastal fisheries , processing and aquaculture .

IMR can not yet say much about how the spill affected the fish stocks. It is highly probable that large quantities of fish eggs and fry that was high in the water simultaneously with the main discharge , have been affected.

The Norwegian fishing industry is struggling most with market credibility abroad even if all fish are now fully edible , and there are fish in the sea. The sale of Norwegian seafood abroad is less than half of before the accident and does not seem to pick up again . Several Chinese , German and American large buyers has completed its purchase agreements .

 

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This is how an oil disaster will affect the Lofoten in Norway

An oil disaster in northern Norway may kill a million puffins, says marine biologist Per-Erik Schulze in Naturvernforbundet(Conservation Association).

 

– An oil disaster is not just numbers, says Per-Erik Schulze in Naturvernforbundet. Therefore, he has written op-ed “The oil slick in Lofoten in 2025, day by day.”

Hundreds of thousands of dead birds, one fisheries collapse, polluted fjords and destroyed wildlife. Conservation Association’s scenario for how an oil spill in Lofoten will look like, is not cheerful reading.

– The entire coast of Lofoten and northwards is a biological “hotspot”. We are talking about huge fish populations, nesting and whale. The size of the environmental damage here would be totally unmanageable, says marine biologist Per-Erik Schulze in Naturvernforbundet NRK.no.

In connection with the fact that it is 25 years since the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, he laid out Tuesday an article describing a day to day scenario of a hypothetical oil spill in northern Norway.

– I based myself on the government acquisition of knowledge which came in 2012. There were presented the possible consequences of a possible blowout on an oil rig or an accident involving an oil tanker, says Schulze.

– But these reports consist of dry numbers. I am among those who have been cleaning up after oil accidents in Norway, and there are so many aspects of such a disaster that can not be described with numbers. What I have tried to do here is to explain to the communities along the coast of northern Norway how it will be experienced by a large oil spill, he continued

– Black Templates not

– How would you summarize the consequences?

– The knowledge acquisition shows is that oil will turn into the shore and take great valuable natural areas, harbors and fjords. The people along the coast you will find that the situation will become very complex.

While the impact seems to be huge, Schulze believes that he is not black paint.

– This is not the worst scenario. I have taken a discharge that lasts for 40-50 days after a blowout from a rig. Some would say it’s “worst case”, but I do not agree with it. I know that the knowledge acquisition is anticipated that one can stop that kind of emission of a few days, but it is not so easy.

– We know that there will be accidents
– How likely is it that something like that happens?

– Accidents often happen when you least expect it, or at least want it. But one opens for business there will be some risk.

According to Schulze, it is estimated that there will be a larger or smaller exhaust from a rig every six years in the area between the UK and Norway.

– It is based on statistics on how often these things happen around the world. We know that accidents will happen, the question is just how big the accident will be.

The oil spill response in Norway is not designed for a major accident, says Schulze.

– Authorities say they at best will be able to take up 40 percent of the oil after such accident as I outlined. The coastal population must know that the rest risks and harbor along the coast.

 

– Scare Propaganda

Now is not Schulze scenario relevant for another four years. In a compromise after the election, the Liberals and the Christian Democrats across that Lofoten and Vesterålen shall be protected throughout this parliamentary term.

But what happens after that, nobody knows. But anyway mean trade ” Norwegian oil and gas ” that Naturvernforbundet exaggerating greatly .

– This is junk scare tactics . The scenario is not based on realistic terms, and it is disappointing that Naturvernforbundet not put up better in Norwegian security preparedness and how it is managed , says head of information for environmental Pia Martine Wold in ” Norwegian oil and gas .”

Wold believes Schulze underestimate oil preparedness quite powerful .

– A big error scenario is the fallacy that the Norwegian oil and gas industry is not prepared . On the contrary , we are thoroughly trained and prepared to handle the most demanding emissions , she said.

– All operators on the NCS has trained plans to deal with such situations , the requirement of a response time between a few hours and up to a few days . The time aspect and capacity that is assumed in the scenario is therefore incorrect . On the open sea , our sector overcapacity of over 20 percent when it comes to the amount of equipment .

Norwegian oil and gas mean Naturvernforbundet mixes the cards.

– Schulze estimates that there will be a larger or smaller exhaust from a rig every six years in the area between the UK and Norway. One can do a lot of things with statistics. It blends Schultze into small and ecologically insignificant emissions and things go wrong went. When it comes to spills of a certain size, which is here the question, we have the Norwegian continental shelf throughout history had only two that have been greater than 1,000 cubic meters. No spills on the Norwegian continental shelf has led to proven environmental impacts – despite extensive investigations after the fact, says Wold NRK.no.

 

1 year: The Norwegian fishing industry is struggling most with market credibility abroad even if all fish are now fully edible, and there are fish in the sea. The sale of Norwegian seafood abroad is less than half of before the accident and does not seem to pick up again. Several Chinese, German and American storinnkjøpere has completed its purchase agreements.

PER-ERIK SCHULZE In Naturvernforbundet

 

– That Schultze on one hand says he builds his scenario on Knowledge-gathering state did, and the other side that he does not believe the conclusions in the same report, says it something about the seriousness of this. Friends of the Earth relate to the previous century’s oil spill, when talking about a scenario over 10 years in the future, says Pia Martine Wold.

http://www.nrk.no/nordland/_-en-varslet-katastrofe-1.11630024

 

Cheers and disappointment for Lofoten exposure

 In partnership turns the four bourgeois parties state that the waters off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja not be assessed in the next parliamentary term. Photo: Anita Arntzen / Dagbladet.

 

The bourgeois postponement of impact assessment and cheer from the environmental movement and deep concern in the oil industry

 

Bellona President Frederic Hauge set the tone among the many happy environment votes Monday night.

– This is a great day, and a marked line away from the dirty oil politics Ola Borten Moe and Jens Stoltenberg has stood for. We are very, very happy today. We have won the battle of Lofoten with enough of a reprieve. Each time we expose this, the less likely it is that there is something off, says Frederic Hauge said.

 

– New fighting

In partnership turns the four bourgeois parties state that the waters off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja not be assessed in the next parliamentary term. Opening process around Jan Mayen is stopped and the civil laws that the government not to start petroleum operations in the ice, the Møre or in the Skagerrak.

– This is fantastic news. Nature and Youth has always said that they never get Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja. When we won for the fifth time, we get enough proof that it is useless to fight, so all credit to the Liberal Party and Christian Democratic Party, says Nature and Youth Leader Nigel Lundberg NTB.

 

– Almost irresponsible

Managing Director Gro Brækken the Norwegian oil and gas points out that the Liberals and the Christian Democrats have achieved more than SV in his time did. The delay in Lofoten came during the proceedings, and was not part of the coalition agreement in advance.

Brækken are particularly disappointed that the Conservatives are helping to stop the knowledge acquisition Lofoten. She can not see anything in the agreement resembling a willingness to long-term industrial development or the development of Northern Norway.

– I think this is almost irresponsible from a party that has been occupied by industrial creation and long-term economic development. This is a democratic problem. Despite the fact that three-quarters of those who sit in Parliament has been campaigning to study the impact lets you reach minor parties Liberals and Christian Democrats run the rest of the parliament, said Brækken.

 

Environmental Press

Zero-leader Marius Holm is not surprised the protection of Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja. He thinks blåblå minority government can be good for the climate, and seems to recognize the model from Oslo, where the Left achieved much on the environment before they went into the council.

– This shift power to the Parliament. We see that the SV has been difficult to overcome environmental issues in government despite a strong policy platform. The Liberals and Christian Democrats on rocker government may be under pressure in Parliament, says Holm.

 

Must prove

Conservation Association CEO Lars Haltbrekken are not as convinced that blåblå government will be more ambitious in the environmental field.

– Time will tell. Erna Solberg must be responsible for their election promises to give Norway a more ambitious climate policy. It is needed for climate report, issued last Friday. Norway has in recent years increased their emissions, while neighboring countries have reduced them, says Haltbrekken.
The future in our hands interprets environmental signals from the bourgeois in a positive direction, and notes that the Progress Party have agreed to strengthen climate agreement by 2012.

– It means that climate policy over the next four years, at least not worse than under the coalition. Now we have expectations that the Conservative Party and the Progress Party goes even further in a joint government statement says Arild Hermstad is the leader in the future in our hands.

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40 oil spills in the Norwegian area of North Sea in one year

Over the past year, it recorded over 40 oil spills from platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf in the North Sea, according to figures from the NCA.

The figures are obtained on behalf of the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature. In addition, recent pictures from the NCA surveillance, daily newspaper have accessed, how the oil spreads in areas around multiple platforms.

– For the first time we have shown that it is quite common to 100 meters wide and several kilometers long streaks of oil on the sea, says adviser for marine biology and pollution of the Earth, Per-Erik Schulze told the newspaper.

Emissions are frightening and totally unacceptable, he said, adding that the government is giving oil companies permission to emit certain amounts of oil, in the form of what is called produced water. NCA evidence shows that emissions are within the annual allowable amount.

The limit for oil spills in the North Sea, according to the Climate and Pollution Agency (CPA) “minimum and shall not exceed 30 mg / l.” The average emissions from oil production is now at 12 milligrams per liter. It is still not good enough, says Hanne Marie massager, head of the petroleum business in CPA.

– We’re working on getting this down further, she said, adding that the CPA considering putting a lower limit on the shelf as a whole and to set limits per field.

 

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Battle of Lofoten to the Parliament of Norway. Oil or World Heritage?

Professor Allan Sande now presents his new book The Battle of Lofoten. Oil or World Heritage? the Parliamentary Energy and Environment Committee

Allan Sande works as a professor of sociology at the University of Nordland. In his new book, The Battle of Lofoten. Oil or World Heritage? analyzes Sande conflict between the old and the new industries in Lofoten.

– The reason that I am now writing about Lofoten is that it is an important national issue, says Sande to aftenbladet.

At 24:30, he presents his new book of the Parliamentary Energy and Environment Committee

– The new battle of Lofoten is now between traditional fisheries and the new export industry, oil and gas Sande writes the book cover.

In the book, he looks at how research, business interests, popular movements and political parties taking part in and influence the conflict.

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Labour Party in Norway says yes to an impact assessment for oil drilling in Lofoten

 

The majority of the editorial committee endorsed an impact beyond Loves.

So did the majority of the congress of the Labour Party when voting was conducted through 11 am Sunday morning.

A total of 298 delegates with voting rights in the courtroom.

With 194 votes against 104, the congress went on to open for an impact assessment in areas off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

Director of the program, Helga Pedersen, stressing that the decision to open areas for oil drilling should not be made before the congress in 2015.

AUF is still on her. They believe a “yes” to impact largely the same as saying “yes” to oil drilling.

It sparked wild applause from the audience when AUF presented their arguments.

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10 out of 19 Labour Party county-teams says YES to impact assessment of Lofoten in Norway

Labour Party’s  county-teams want have impact assessment

There are probably large deposits of oil off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

Ten of the Labour Party’s county-teams wants impact assessment of oil drilling off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

Ten of the Labour Party’s (Ap) county-teams wants impact of oil drilling off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja. Five county’s opponents, while four have not decided.

Labour Party is thus strongly split over oil drilling in the northern front of congress about a month.

In late January, the Council of Labor program in order to assess the impact areas off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

In 2011 celebrated the Socialist Left Party and environmentalists that the AP and the other two coalition parties decided to wait to open the vulnerable areas for oil exploration.

Only Oslo clearly says no

A majority of county teams Labour now say yes to the impact study areas, but many of these county teams are small. Together, they have no more than 124 out of a total of 300 delegates, Dagsavisen.

Oslo is among county teams, which clearly says no to the impact of oil drilling off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

A nearly unanimous Joint Labor in favor of impact. Only AUF leader Eskil Pedersen opposed the proposal.

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2 Labour Party county-teams says NO to impact assessment in Lofoten

BREAKING NEWS!!!! GOOD NEWS!!!

 

Nature and Youth is delighted that both Møre-Romsdal and Akershus Labour has said no to a preliminary environmental impact of oil operations off Lofoten and Vesterålen.

It was a very good news to wake up to. Hopefully this can send important signals to the Labor deputy Helga Pedersen and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg that these are key areas that should not and can be opened, the chairman of the Nature and Youth Silje Lundberg NTB.

Lundberg believes this demonstrates the change of mood within the Labour Party.

– It shows that Møre-Romsdal and Akershus Labour dare to rely on their youth. AUF say no, and they have worked well with this case, said Lundberg.

– Solid majority in the
Annual Meeting in Oslo Labor says no to examine the impact of oil activities outside Lofoten and Senja in the coming parliamentary term.

The decision, which comes Nordland VI, Nordland VII and Troms II, was taken Sunday morning.

– A solid majority of the delegates voted for the proposal, said County Secretary breathed Ruud Goksøyr NTB.

 

Here are the areas Akershus Labour Party currently will close for oil drilling.

Møre-Romsdal Labour Party: – No oil now

Also Møre-Romsdal Labour Party’s annual conference said no to the preliminary impact of oil operations off Lofoten and Senja.

The decision, which comes Nordland VI, Nordland VII and Troms II, was issued Sunday morning by a narrow majority, 67 to 62 votes.

– The proposal from the county party’s control to open for impact assessment, was rejected, said annual meeting director, Mayor Roger Osen in Smøla municipality, NTB.

– Must be adopted at the national convention
The AGM also adopted an additional resolution that demands the further process in labor, should it become necessary to examine the impact oil exploration in Lofoten and Senja.

This decision requires that any opening of Nordland VI, VII and Troms II must be treated by the Labour Party’s national convention, which is the party’s highest body.

The program-Committee said yes

Thus goes the two county parties in the Labor Party’s program committee in January went on to examine the impact Lofoten.

– Now the Government has conducted a very thorough knowledge acquisition. We have gained new knowledge about employment effects, environment and relationship with the fishing industry. The knowledge we have today suggests that we should go ahead with an impact, said Helga Pedersen, Deputy Labour to NRK.no in January.

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Battle for an oil-free Lofoten continues in Norway

Socialist Left Party will never fail Lofoten

Anyone who supports us in northern Norway and elsewhere in the country: Socialist Left Party will never fail in the struggle for an oil-free Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, says Audun Lysbakken.

Socialist Left Party leader Audun Lysbakken spent much of his speech to the party congress at Rally for battle against oil drilling off Lofoten.

The question of yes or no to oil drilling off Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja is a national choices and values​​. It is the test of whether we are a country where oil takes precedence over all other considerations, or whether we are a people who know the value of more than money, said Lysbakken before he stated to the applause of the convention:

– Anyone who supports us in northern Norway and elsewhere in the country: Socialist Left Party will never fail in the struggle for an oil-free Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

He went directly to the attack on oljetilhengernes arguments.

– Oil Advocates tries periodically to portray opponents as coffee latte-drinking southerner who will stand in the way of development in the north. It makes me angry. For then depicts the Northern Norway as a sort of poor countries without ideas, which have saved the oil industry, said Socialist Left Party leader.

He stated that drilling at best will provide a fifth of the jobs that fishing and tourism provide today.

25 billion NOK

Lysbakken went on to tell what the party thinks they can do for the 25 billion that the Conservatives have promised tax cuts. It’s about teachers, day care, research, train, new housing and the fight against poverty.

– Our clear message for the next four years are: Not one tax cuts to the wealthy whine class, was the message from Socialist Left Party leader.

The party, which in many ways has gathering in the bottom of Lillestrøm, heard Lysbakken tell that Socialist Left Party will introduce a national minimum standard for social assistance, set up 1,500 new jobs at health centers and school health, still introducing school meals and more physical activity – and make sure to build 40,000 new homes a year in a national housing plan to ensure all a good place to stay at an affordable price.

Europe in crisis

Socialist Left Party leader went on to talk about the party’s nursery Mode # 2, a quality reform, more generous attitude towards asylum children, peace, development policy and solidarity linked to the economic crisis in Europe.

– This crisis is caused by years of EU neoliberal policies. And Norway is not an island in Europe. There is no reason to believe that not the economic and political crisis in the EU will affect the future here, too, said Lysbakken.

 

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About half of Norway’s population supports the proposed oil drilling in Lofoten

 

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Ap) is supported in the Lofoten-question of another-each Norwegian.

According to a survey conducted by Response Analysis for Aftenposten.

When asked whether they believe it would be appropriate to initiate an impact assessment that provides opportunity to initiate oil production, 49 percent responding yes. A third, 34 percent, say they oppose.

Labor and SV however disagree whether voters also are for or against oil drilling?

– There is no control between impact and drilling. We have investigated the impact areas without opening them, says Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Aftenposten.

– There should be no doubt that the impact assessment carried out for the purpose of drilling, and that it leads to oil drilling, says Environment Minister Bård Vegar Solhjell.

Information Aftenposten has obtained show that both partly right:

Norway has had two great impact assessment following the current regulations: the southern Barents Sea (1989) and the Norwegian Sea (1994).

Both led to oil drilling, but there were also areas that were not opened, said Oil and Energy Ministry graded

In 1989, it was decided to open all unopened in the Barents south, except Troms 2, which remains closed.

In 1994 it was decided to open areas in deep water and coastal remote areas in the Norwegian Sea. Trøndelag area 1 East, and the coastal areas of Nordland 4,5, and 6 were not opened. Nordland 7 was entirely nor opened for oil drilling.

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