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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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Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
(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!!!
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(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...