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Western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer is falling out of love with oil.
To the dismay of the nation’s powerful oil industry and its worker unions, the opposition Labor Party over the weekend decided to withdraw its support for oil exploration offshore the sensitive Lofoten islands in Norway’s Arctic, creating a solid majority in parliament to keep the area off limits for drilling.
The dramatic shift by Norway’s biggest party is a significant blow to the support the oil industry has enjoyed, and could signal that the Scandinavian nation is coming closer to the end of an era that made it one of the world’s most affluent.
How will Norway pay for its social safety network without oil revenues?
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 09 2019, @03:44AM (12 children)
We're seeing more and more people from places like Norway that want to come to U.S.A. To immigrate. Too bad. Our Country is full!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @07:26AM (1 child)
Direct quote:
"Haiti? Why do we want people from Haiti here?" Then they got Africa. 'Why do we want these people from all these shithole countries here? We should have more people from places like Norway."
(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:21AM
I don't agree. I don't agree. Norway, in the early 1940s, used to be great. It's great no more. Too many Radical Muslims. And, too many Socialists. Their country is CIRCLING THE DRAIN!!!!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by stretch611 on Tuesday April 09 2019, @08:07AM
You're right, our country is too full... Why don't you leave to make room for others.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 09 2019, @11:34AM (7 children)
We're seeing more and more people from places like American that want to come to Canada to immigrate. OUR Country is GREAT!!!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 09 2019, @11:35AM
Stupid auto-correct.
*America
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:18PM (1 child)
And it's getting warmer! I never understood why Canadians don't like that. The Canada Goose down jacket lobby?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:56PM
I like it!
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 09 2019, @05:58PM (2 children)
It's great so long as you're very healthy. Get sick and it's catastrophic. Socialist Healthcare doesn’t work anywhere in the World. It’s good if you don’t mind waiting like 5 weeks to see a Doctor. Very very slow. Frankly, they come from Canada because they want to use our Doctors.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:10PM (1 child)
America's great so long as you are Wealthy. Screw everyone else!
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:50PM
So true and we have more VERY VERY RICH people than any other country. We call them billionaires and I, very proudly, am one of them. We have more than China, more than India and more than Germany. Getting richer very quickly, because of me. And we have the richest person -- Jeff Bozo. Should have been tied for #7 with MacKenzie. But she settled, so dumb. NEVER SETTLE!!!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @01:18AM
The instant I am able to I am going to Canada. This country has had it. I'm not even sure Canada will be all that safe for all that much longer, especially if I choose the wrong place to go, but it's got to be better than this...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 09 2019, @07:06PM
The country is not full. It's just your small brain that is full.