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Norway gives nod to North Sea exploration

[Norwaynews] [23.05.2013, 05:30pm, Thu. GMT]

The Norwegian government said Thursday it gave its consent to energy explorers to start drilling activity in the North Sea. The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority said it gave German company RWE-Dea consent to start drilling offshore in shallow waters. Drilling is expected to start at some point this month and last about 92 days, depending on whether the company makes a discovery. Swedish energy company Lundin Petroleum secured similar concessions for a 13-month drilling program offshore Norway, the agency said.

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Vaccine development will ensure healthy fish and animals

[Norwaynews] [03.09.2009, 06:58am, Thu. GMT]

Researchers and research fellows at a number of Norwegian research communities are taking part in four Norwegian-Indian cooperative projects on fish and animal vaccines. At least as many people at Indian universities and research institutions are participating in the projects. Cooperating on fish and animal vaccines is part of the large-scale collaboration on vaccine research agreed upon in Delhi in December 2005 by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Indian Minister of Science and Technology Kapil Sibal. The actual research contract is between the Research Council of Norway and the Department of Biotechnology under India's Ministry of Science and Technology.

Norway fish farms thrive under ecologists' watchful eye

[Norwaynews] [22.06.2009, 06:18pm, Mon. GMT]

Tucked away in the corner of an enchanting fjord, 600,000 baby trout frolick in underwater cages as they wait their turn to end up on dinner plates: fish farming is booming in Norway, under the watchful eye of environmentalists. In Oeygarden near the western Norwegian town of Bergen, the Blom family's fish farm consists of a building constructed on the water and three submerged basins where the fish are raised. It is just one of the 800 fish farms dotting the coastline in the Scandinavian country, where three times more salmon and trout are produced than meat.

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