In an era of climate change, Statoil and by extension Norway’s entire oil and gas industry, is coming under increasing pressure from within its own borders. The activism goes beyond conventional environmental concerns to issues of the company’s pervasive presence in Norwegian life. For instance, professors and students have protested Statoil’s financing of academic research. Musicians and artists have campaigned against the company’s widespread sponsorship of cultural events and organizations. And as production has fallen in old North Sea fields, Statoil has looked elsewhere for oil and gas, including environmentally sensitive areas in the Arctic. That has environmentalists and others fuming. “Statoil, why are you getting yourself involved in really dirty business?” said Mr. Gulowsen of Greenpeace. nytimes/2014/12/31/business/international/norwegians-turn-ambivalent-on-statoil-their-economic-bedrock.html?emc=edit_tnt_20141230&nlid=38021197&tntemail0=y&_r=0
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 01:55:47 +0000
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