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| Couple in Norway get 17 years for incest |
| [Norwaynews] [17.05.2013, 07:09pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Norwegian court sentenced a couple to 17 years in prison for violence, rape and incestuous relations with their three sons, calling it the country’s worst sexual abuse case. A 39-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had been accused of physical and sexual violence over two years, from a very young age, against the two boys born of their union and the third boy from a previous relationship by the mother.
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| The Barents Parliamentary Conference |
| [Norway] [25.04.2013, 03:56pm, Thu. GMT] |
| "The overall results have far exceeded our expectations. The Barents Cooperation has been important not just for Norway, not just for the Barents Region. It has been important for Europe – it has served as an example of successful post cold war cooperation across old dividing lines", State Secretary Torgeir Larsen said in his speech at The Barents Parliamentary Conference in Harstad, Norway, 23 April 2013. |
| | | | Green Light World Flight - North Pole 2013 |
| [Norwaynews] [24.02.2013, 01:56pm, Sun. GMT] |
The Arctic expedition “Green Light World Flight - North Pole 2013”, April – May 2013, when Mr Matevž Lenarčič, Slovenian biologist, environmentalist, photographer and experienced long distance pilot, will fly an eco friendly ultra-light aircraft from a Slovenian company “Pipistrel” over the North Pole, crossing from Europe to Canada and back to Europe following Lindbergh route over Atlantic.
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| | | | SE Barents opening on Norway radar |
| [Norwaynews] [09.01.2013, 05:05pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Norway’s oil minister has confirmed that a bill will be presented to the country’s parliament this spring for the opening of two frontier areas for oil and gas exploration, according to a report. Petroleum & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe has previously stated that he was looking to launch the long-awaited opening process for the south-east Barents Sea and the area off Jan Mayen island in the earlier part of 2013. |
| | | | Svalbard selects Lufttransport for SAR |
| [Norwaynews] [06.01.2013, 08:59am, Sun. GMT] |
| The Norwegian company Lufttransport has been awarded the new Search and Rescue (SAR) / Transport contract for Sysselmannen on Svalbard Island in the northernmost part of Norway. The contract will be effective from 1 April 2014, and the new operator will be replacing Airlift that has been on the island since 1 April 1996 (with a renewal in 2004). The presence of helicopters in the area will be strengthened by placing two AS 332 Super Pumas on the island instead of one Super Puma and one Dauphin. |
| | | | Norway to Establish Search and Rescue Center for High North Region |
| [Norwaynews] [21.12.2012, 11:28am, Fri. GMT] |
| The Norwegian government will allocate $179,978 (NOK 1 million) to establish a resource and competence center for search and rescue in the country's High North region. Increased activity onshore and offshore in the High North has created the need for enhanced search and rescue measures at the local level, said Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide in a statement last week. As a result, strengthening search and rescue is therefore a central part of the government's High North strategy. |
| | | | Canada, Norway, Arctic parliamentarians want Russian indigenous org back at Arctic Council |
| [Norwaynews] [17.11.2012, 11:09am, Sat. GMT] |
| “Our government supports the promotion of basic values -- freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law," says Aglukkaq. Ministers from Canada and Norway, along with Arctic Parliamentarians, want the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East back at the Arctic Council. Canadian officials will continue to monitor what happens to the RAIPON, says Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq, also the federal minister responsible for the Arctic Council. |
| | | | Norway to expand High North exploration |
| [Norwaynews] [29.08.2012, 12:32pm, Wed. GMT] |
| Norway's energy minster pledged today to expand oil and gas exploration into the country's far northern waters and said he would present exploration expansion plans to the country's parliament early next year. “I will present a proposal before parliament in the spring of 2013 to open up new areas for exploration in the High North,” Ola Borten Moe told delegates at the ONS conference. “We need to maximise output from Snohvit and develop new discoveries,” he said. “We need to continue to explore and we need to include new areas in our licensing round.” |
| | | | New Svalbard coal mine in the pipeline |
| [Norway] [30.03.2012, 05:48pm, Fri. GMT] |
Norway has started preparations for a new coal mine on the Arctic Arcipelago of Svalbard. This week the Norwegian contractor Veidekke started construction of a three kilometer long road to Mount Lunckefjell across the Martha glacier. The biggest challenge is to get all the machinery and equipment transported from Svea across the glaciers, says Jostein Nordstrm in Veidekke Contractors to Svalbardposten. His company has to clear tons of snow and ice away before they can start building a new road through the frozen glacial soil. |
| | | | Norway demands Russian satellite station removed |
| [Norway] [28.02.2012, 04:53pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway’s Governor to Svalbard demands that Russia removes an illegally erected plant for a satellite station in Barentsburg. By May 15 three large and heavy concrete foundations for satellite antennas, cable trays and two container cabins must be removed from the mountain just behind Barentsburg, the Governor’s web site reads. Russia started building the station last summer, without the necessary permission from the Governor, who is the highest authority on the archipelago. |
| | | | 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.” |
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| Norway, Germany seek Arctic energy cooperation |
| [Norwaynews] [01.03.2013, 04:57pm, Fri. GMT] |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled to Oslo recently to meet with Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to discuss the euro crisis and energy issues, including cooperation in the Arctic. This was the pair's fifth meeting in nine months. Stoltenberg stressed the importance of German and European companies in assisting with the development of the Arctic region. After his meeting with Merkel, he remarked, "We also touched on the North and the Arctic, and the possibilities inherent in the North, both energy and other resources. Here, I conveyed that it is important that more good effort involved to develop this important region. This applies to Europe as a whole, including Germany and German industry." |
| | | | Labour in Lofoten 'turnaround act' |
| [Norwaynews] [31.01.2013, 06:10pm, Thu. GMT] |
| A committee vote within Norway’s ruling Labour Party in favour of carrying out an impact assessment study to open eco-sensitive areas off the Lofoten islands for oil and gas drilling has reportedly sparked opposition both from green groups and within the ranks of the coalition government. The party’s programme committee decided by an overwhelming majority to permit a study, previously ruled out under the current parliamentary term, during the next four-year period if the present administration wins elections this autumn. |
| | | | In Arctic Norway, world's first laboratory inside a glacier |
| [Norwaynews] [06.01.2013, 09:02am, Sun. GMT] |
Above the Arctic Circle, and below 700 feet of ice, scientists are working in the world’s only laboratory that is situated underneath a glacier, at the Svartisen glacier in northern Norway. These researchers are gathering some of the best glacial data that has ever been compiled, Discovery News reports. The lab is run by the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, and researchers are carrying out experiments on glacier movement and drainage, as well as how the melt water impacts rising sea levels.
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| | | | Video: Terrifying moment polar bear attacks BBC cameraman in pod |
| [Norwaynews] [04.01.2013, 04:49pm, Fri. GMT] |
| This is the terrifying moment a wildlife cameraman comes face-to-face with a starving 1,000kg polar bear looking for its next meal in Arctic Norway. The eight-foot predator repeatedly attacks the perspex cage housing Gordon Buchanan as he films a new series for the BBC. For 40 minutes the Scottish filmmaker endures the polar bear's sustained assault as it desperately looks for a weak spot in his pod, an on-ice equivalent of a shark cage. |
| | | | Arctic Ocean gets first gas cargo |
| [Norwaynews] [03.12.2012, 03:08pm, Mon. GMT] |
| A fully loaded LNG tanker has for the first time sailed along the Northern Sea Route from Norway to Japan. Gas tanker the "Ob River" took the cargo aboard at Melkøya, Finnmark County, on 7 November. The ship is now lying outside one of Japan’s major LNG terminals in Japan waiting to unload 134,738 cubic metres of liquefied natural gas. |
| | | | Norway push for Arctic research |
| [Norwaynews] [06.11.2012, 07:24pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway’s Petroleum & Energy Ministry is seeking suitable research projects to qualify for funding as part of a planned Arctic centre that is intended to develop specialist expertise for exploitation of the prospective northern region. The centre, aimed at building up a research and development environment for Arctic innovation, is due to be launched next year with combined annual funding of Nkr10 million ($1.75 million) from both the energy and foreign ministries. The Norwegian Research Council is now making funds available for R&D projects focusing on one or more of three categories identified by the industry as key areas for research: |
| | | | The High North and the Arctic: The Norwegian Perspective |
| [Norway] [15.06.2012, 02:22pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Norway’s strategic efforts in the north must be seen in a geopolitical context. Norway will continue its active dialogue on High North issues with its neighbours, partners and allies. Strengthened international cooperation in the north – both circumpolar cooperation and cooperation with Russia in particular – will in turn be beneficial for developments in Norway, writes Foreign Minister Støre in this article. |
| | | | Doomsday Seed Vault has more than 740,000 samples |
| [Norway] [01.03.2012, 07:37am, Thu. GMT] |
| This week, the Doomsday Seed Vault in Norway is scheduled to receive nearly 25,000 samples of seeds from around the world, including those of grains that grow on one of the world's highest mountain ranges and a plant whose stems redden an Ecuadorean drink on the "Day of the Dead." With these additions the now four-year-old vault, formerly known as the Svaldbard Global Seed Vault, would house more than 740,000 samples in an Arctic mountain on the Svaldbard archipelago. |
| | | | Cameron 'to ensure good North Sea tax regime' |
| [Norwaynews] [08.02.2012, 06:14pm, Wed. GMT] |
| A UK member of parliament called on Prime Minister David Cameron earlier on Wednesday to introduce changes on tax relief covering offshore platform decommissioning to guarantee jobs. Labour MP for North Tyneside Mary Glindon asked Cameron during the weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session in parliament to incentivise offshore developments because controversial tax increases introduced last year had put jobs at risk. |
| | | | 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. |
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