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posted by martyb on Tuesday April 09 2019, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-how-long dept.

Bloomberg:

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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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:13AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:13AM (#827237) Journal

    Hey, *I'm* not the one fixated on IQ, it's our "scientific" racist friend(s?) up above who seem to have a permanent woodie for it. Mine is, like yours, in the 140-150 range, though unlike you I have the ability to play politics; I kind of have to, women live and die by social networks unfortunately.

    IQ tends to be the fetish or totem the "scientific" racist guys, and they are almost always guys, get hooked on. They seem to have forgotten that there are multiple dimensions to intelligence. I most certainly do not have the equivalent of a 140-150 IQ in music due to severe hearing loss, and am just average athletically, for example.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:30AM (#827250)

    It is not so much an inability as a disinclination. I don't like playing politics. The few times I have gotten pissed off enough to pay attention and get down and dirty with the assholes, I generally get what I want, and also get left alone afterwards for a considerable time. I feel dirty when I do that though.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:27AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @05:27AM (#827302) Journal

      And yet you don't feel dirty for suggesting that large swathes of the human race are lost causes, essentially brute beasts, with all the genocidal policy that implies? Your priorities are fucked. Take a long, hard look in the mirror before you call someone else a beast...

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