Norway oil: Environmentalists lose Arctic exploration case [View all]

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Source: BBC

Norway oil: Environmentalists lose Arctic exploration case

4 January 2018

A Norwegian court has backed the government's plans for oil exploration in the Arctic, which had been challenged by environmental groups.

The issuing of oil exploration licences breached a constitutional right to a healthy environment, the groups said.

The 10 licences were issued in 2016 to explore the Barents Sea above the Arctic circle.

Norway is seeking to replace production from its dwindling oilfields in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea.

Although signed up to the 2015 Paris climate change agreement, it is western Europe's biggest producer and exporter of oil and gas.

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