Trondheim is where Peter Naughton was based in 1972 to do his year-long fellowship for the Kingdom of Norway on how to drill for North Sea oil without destroying village cultures the way England had. Peter suggested after a year not drilling for the oil, a suggestion the Kingdom followed for decades, since there was then no accepted tried way not to have an oil company come in and offer local people all kinds of high-paid work, destroy property values, build things no one wanted after the company left, and leave the area with no psychological or sociological moorings intact. Later someone figured out that North Sea oil belonged to the public, not to the companies that would extract it, so those companies if they wanted to do so would have to pay the public of Norway both a rent for occupying the area while extracting the oil and royalties on the oil, and restore the area to its original state and/or pay damages for not doing so the same way any tenant has to do when leaving a rented area. This is why no village culture in Norway has been destroyed by oil companies and every Norwegian has a million dollars in the general fund. Very smart place, Trondheim. Heres another example.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:57:44 +0000
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