Norway Offers $193 Million Funding to Arctic Floating Wind Farm Project
round for small-scale floating wind is already planned for later this year, Enova said.Last year, Equinor inaugurated the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm in the North Sea, which powers a number of oil and gas platforms.($1 = 10.3621 Norwegian crowns)(Reuters - Reporting by Nora Buli, editing by Terje Solsvik
Denmark Ends Investigation of Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts
have said Russian naval vessels were in the area at the time of the blasts, but others have said there is no hard evidence to implicate Moscow, which called the suggestion it was behind the attacks "absurd".(Reuters - Reporting by Stine Jacobsen and Louise Breusch-Rasmussen; editing by Terje Solsvik and Mark Heinrich
Norway Parliament Votes in favor of Seabed Mining
taken now," Energy Minister Terje Aasland told parliament.The amended version of the government's proposal, which was debated on Tuesday, sets stricter environmental survey requirements during the exploration phase than originally planned.(Reuters - Reporting by Victoria Klesty, editing by Terje Solsvik
Norwegian Parliament Strikes Deal to Advance Seabed Mining
;Environmental group WWF, however, said the decision to move forward damaged Norway's reputation for ocean preservation but added it hoped parliament would eventually block any move to full-scale mining.(Reuters - Reporting by Victoria Klesty; additional reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis; editing by Terje Solsvik, Sandra Maler and Jane Merriman
Finland-Estonia Gas Pipeline System to Get Bigger Capacity after Repair
a ship dragging its anchor along the seabed.Finnish police leading a criminal investigation have named a Chinese ship, the NewNew Polar Bear container carrier, as a suspect in the case but have said it was too early to tell if this was an accident or a deliberate act.(Reuters - Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Louise Rasmussen)EXPLAINER-What is the Balticconnector pipeline
Yara to Store CO2 from Dutch Plant under Norway Seabed
."This is a milestone for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industry in Europe and for Yara it's an important step towards decarbonizing our ammonia production, product lines, and the food value chain at large," Yara CEO Svein Tore Holsether said.(Reuters - Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Essi Lehto)Northern Lights CCS: Trailblazing the Path to Europe’s Net Zero Emission
Finland Says China Promised Full Cooperation in Pipeline Probe
a time when security fears are running high because of the Ukraine war. Investigators have yet to establish who was responsible for blowing up Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea last year.(Reuters - Reporting by Anne Kauranen and Simon Johnson, writing by Anna Ringstrom and Terje Solsvik, editing by Christina Fincher
Russian Firm Says Baltic Telecoms Cable was Severed as Chinese Ship Passed Over
runs from St Petersburg to Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. The company said users had not been affected because data was transmitted via terrestrial routes and backup satellite channels.(Reuters - Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; Additional reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis, Anne Kauranen and Terje Solsvik; Editing by Bill Berkrot and Matthew Lewis
Russia Says Telecoms Cable Damaged Last month Just Before Nearby Baltic Gas Pipeline
had started repairs on the fibre optic cable on Nov. 5 and the work was expected to take 10 days, depending on weather conditions.It said users had not been affected because data was transmitted via terrestrial routes and backup satellite channels.(Reuters - Additional reporting by Anne Kauranen and Terje Solsvik/Editing by Gareth Jones
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