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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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Svalbard
| Norway Foreign Minister on Arctic sales trip |
| [Norwaynews] [06.01.2012, 11:53am, Fri. GMT] |
| Jonas Gahr Støre is in Texas enlightening American oil companies about opportunities in the frozen “land of opportunity”. Hoping his High North sales patter will lift off in Houston, he tells Aftenbladet, “many people are unfamiliar with this area, and there’s a lot of speculation regarding the possibilities there. Our strategy is to inform them about the region’s realities.” |
| | | | NOK 1.5 billion to High North activities in 2012 |
| [Norwaynews] [08.10.2011, 02:43am, Sat. GMT] |
| Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs commented, “The budget for 2012 reflects the fact that the High North is the Government’s most important strategic foreign policy priority. Our focus areas in the High North include petroleum exploration, simplified border-crossing procedures with Russia and a new technology building at the University of Tromsø.” |
| | | | High Court judge to chair inquiry into polar bear attack |
| [Norwaynews] [12.09.2011, 09:01am, Mon. GMT] |
A HIGH court judge is to chair an independent inquiry into the death of a Salisbury teenager who was killed by a polar bear in Norway in August. Seventeen-year-old Horatio Chapple, from Bishopstone, was killed and several others severely injured while on the island of Svalbard on August 5. The group, who were part of an expedition held by the British Schools Expedition Society, were asleep in their tent when the bear attacked.
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| | | | Polar Bears in Svalbard, Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [29.06.2011, 08:15am, Wed. GMT] |
| Halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole – high above the Arctic Circle – lies the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. A trip to Svalbard is not for the budget-conscious, so for many this might be the trip of a lifetime. Getting to this remarkable group of islands is no easy feat: You need to travel to Norway first, then book an additional flight from Oslo to Longyearbyen. Flights to Longyearbyen only run in the summer because of climate conditions. |
| | | | India, Norway for joint polar research |
| [Norwaynews] [07.02.2011, 01:24pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The potential for enhancing collaborative polar research between India and Norway is immense. This was the message of the Indo-Norwegian meeting titled ‘Pole to Pole’ on February 3, which included an exhibition and a seminar, and was organised by the Ministry of Earth Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in collaboration with the Ministry's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Goa, and the Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso. |
| | | | Polish researcher fined for shooting Norwegian polar bear |
| [Norwaynews] [07.09.2010, 06:55pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A Polish researcher was fined 5,000 Norwegian kroner (633 euros, 805 dollars) by local authorities on the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard for shooting a polar bear that later died, a spokesman said Tuesday. A Polish scientist shot the polar bear in July with the intention to scare it away, Arild Lyssand of the Svalbard local authority told AFP, but the bear was hit and 12 days later died of its injuries. |
| | | | Record number of tourists to Lofoten |
| [Norwaynews] [20.08.2010, 03:50pm, Fri. GMT] |
| The number of tourists to the Lofoten Archipelago in Northern Norway is rising. In spite of the financial crisis Russians and Europeans are streaming to the islands. A status as world heritage site could probably increase the number of visitors with 50 percent. The regional promotional body Destination Lofoten estimates that hotels in Lofoten will have had 380 000 bookings by the end of the year. This is five percent more than last year and a record for the fourth year in a row, NRK.no reports. |
| | | | New monitoring system for the Barents region |
| [Norwaynews] [03.07.2010, 01:51pm, Sat. GMT] |
| The Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs has been given the responsibility for setting up a new, full-spectrum monitoring and information system for the Northern sea and coastal areas. The work will be headed up by the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA). The Norwegian Mapping Authority, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and many other specialist bodies will be involved in the work. |
| | | | US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs visited Svalbard |
| [Norwaynews] [28.06.2010, 02:02pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs María Otero visited Svalbard June 21 – 24 to attend the 2010 Ny-Ålesund Symposium, entitled The Changing Arctic and Its Global Implications. The Ny-Ålesund Symposium is an annual event that brings together policy makers, researchers, senior business executives and other high-level decisions makers to discuss challenges facing the Arctic region. |
| | | | Students in Svalbard to continue education on Norwegian mainland |
| [Norwaynews] [16.02.2010, 09:32pm, Tue. GMT] |
| A decision by the Ministry of Justice permits foreign students at the Longyearbyen school to be granted residency for secondary education on the mainland. “At Longyearbyen school in Svalbard, a limited education is available at the high school level, especially in the vocational course of study. Therefore, foreign students at the school can obtain a residence permit for study purposes on the mainland of Norway,” said Astri Aas-Hansen of the Justice Ministry. |
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| Norway and US in Arctic teamwork |
| [Norwaynews] [10.11.2011, 06:58pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Norway and US have struck an agreement to co-operate on sustainable exploitation of oil and gas resources in the Arctic. The pact was signed by US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Norwegian Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe during the latter’s visit to North America this week. |
| | | | Norway’s AIS satellite enhances marine safety |
| [Norwaynews] [29.09.2011, 06:30pm, Thu. GMT] |
| With payload developed by Kongsberg Seatex AS, Norway’s AISSat-1 satellite was launched successfully from India last week. It has already begun transmitting AIS messages from space to earth via Kongsberg Satellite Services' ground station at Svalbard. |
| | | | DNV sees Arctic activity spike |
| [Norwaynews] [07.09.2011, 12:31pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Arctic exploration and production is a high-risk inevitability as global energy demand threatens to overrun supply, classification stalwart DNV contends. The Norwegian outfit’s sentiments were echoed by Schlumberger chairman Andrew Gould who nonetheless argued this week that only the very large oil companies would initially dip their toes in such a harsh frontier environment. |
| | | | Norway sends top diplomat to Murmansk |
| [Norwaynews] [07.02.2011, 01:27pm, Mon. GMT] |
| Former Ambassador to Moscow, Øyvind Nordsletten, is likely to be Norway’s new Consul General in Murmansk. Nordsletten is one of Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre’s top diplomats. He has a long career including Moscow, Kiev and currently Dublin. It is Nordlys that today reports on the possible appointment of Nordsletten as Consul General in Murmansk after Jon Fredriksen leaves the post this summer. |
| | | | Norway, Exploration in Barents Sea vs. in Lofoten |
| [Norwaynews] [10.09.2010, 05:28pm, Fri. GMT] |
| The Norwegian government is likely to give first priority to hydrocarbon exploration in the Barents Sea and not in the Lofoten waters, spokesman on energy issues for the Norwegian Progress Party says. Mr. Ketil Solvik-Olsen believes the Norwegian government will progress exploration in the Barents Sea, while operations in the promising Lofoten area will be put on hold, Petro.no reports. |
| | | | US Navy commander visited Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [20.08.2010, 03:54pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Multinational presence is important to us and we appreciate that our close allies want to train in Norway, said Minister of Defense Grete Faremo to Commander of the US Navy Admiral Gary Roughead when he visited Norway recently. The high ranking US officer and the Norwegian minister discussed issues like allied training, the High North, cooperation with the United States and new air-to-sea missiles for Norway’s new F-35 jet fighters, the ministry writes on its web site. |
| | | | The Arctic: where tourism meets conservation |
| [Norwaynews] [13.08.2010, 12:11pm, Fri. GMT] |
Greenland hit the headlines this week after a vast block of ice broke off from the country's Petermann Glacier. The 600-foot thick iceberg is around four times the size of Manhattan. Researchers monitoring the Greenland ice sheet have said it represents the largest single shedding of Greenland's ice sheet in fifty years. Breakages from Greenland's ice sheet (a process known as 'calving'), are not uncommon and hundreds occur naturally every year.
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| | | | Sailing around the North Pole |
| [Norwaynews] [29.06.2010, 07:17pm, Tue. GMT] |
Norwegian adventurer and polar explorer Børge Ousland and his friend Thorleif Thorleifson have begun a voyage which they hope will take them through both the North East and the North West Passage. They left Oslo this week on board their 30-foot trimaran to begin a trip which will first take them north along the coast of Norway, before they set course east, along the northern coast of Siberia, through the North East Passage. |
| | | | Slight fall in Svalbard population |
| [Norwaynews] [23.04.2010, 08:44pm, Fri. GMT] |
Svalbard has a high level of in- and out-migration, markedly influencing the size of the population. On Jan. 1 2010, 2,481 were registered at Svalbard, 84 fewer than one year earlier. A total of 2,052 of these lived in the Norwegian settlements Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund. During 2009, the number of inhabitants in the Norwegian settlements decreased by 33, whereas the Russian settlement Barentsburg experienced a decrease of 50.
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| | | | Most of Lofoten without electricity |
| [Norwaynews] [29.12.2009, 01:38pm, Tue. GMT] |
| In Lofoten and Vesterålen 30,000 people were without electricity Tuesday, due to a fault on the main supply line to the area. It is hoped that the fault will have been repaired by the end of the day. The reserve feed also developed a fault, and with the cold weather, there was concern that people relying on just electricty for heating would suffer. Social services were therefore put on alert in case asistance was needed. Local hospitals are equipped with emergency generators, but municipal offices and shops were affected by the power outage. |
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