Decision is likely to determine whether oil firms can continue to search for hydrocarbons off northern Norway
Greenpeace activists approach Equinor oil rig near Hammerfest, Norway, on April 29 2019. Picture: REUTERS/JONNE SIPPOLA/GREENPEACE HANDOUT
If, as expected, the court takes up the case, it would hear it this year or next and its decision will be the final word. First, a formal process has to be followed involving the appeal court, a spokesman said. Norway is western Europe’s largest oil and gas exporter. Its reserves helped to make it one of the world’s wealthiest nations in the half-century since petroleum was first found within its territorial waters. Most of its production is from the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea, located south of the Arctic, but more recent developments have seen the exploration and production in the far-north Barents Sea.
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