Norway says pump it up on oil and gas for now
The country has seen a return to a more unapologetic stance of producing energy to help wean Europe off its dependence on Russia
THE television series Occupied imagines a world in which a green-leaning government in Norway stops oil and gas production, leading to a Russian invasion supported by the European Union (EU) to keep the fossil fuels flowing.
But in the real world of Norway’s 2025 parliamentary election campaign, the main opposition leader gave a strikingly different message earlier this year.
“Norway should be the last country in the world to stop production … We want to pump oil for another 100 years,” Sylvi Listhaug, leader of the right-wing populist Progress Party, told newspaper VG.
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