English News Weekly

373 - Norway: Nature Trumps Oil Billions

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This week’s ENW podcast reports on a decision by the Norwegian government to begin to end the country’s drilling for off-shore oil. The announcement, by Europe’s largest producer of petroleum, is simply because the centre-left opposition wants to reduce the ecological damage created by oil production. The decision will cost the northern European nation billions of Euros in oil revenue. What is the reaction in Norway? Is this idea universally popular? ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all! (PDF) Download MP3