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Subsidising climate change

We need to raise awareness about how the rich oil nations keep subsidising oil extraction whilst agreeing that the world needs to cut emissions. Taxpayers cannot passively let their governments do this.

By Tina Andersen Vågenes

/ 16 Jan 2015

Toxic waste: the death of the fjords?

The Nordic mining industry is planning to fill up Norway’s famous fjords with toxic waste. Fast earnings and cheap disposal methods may ruin the ecosystem. Massive protests against the government have begun, says Young Friends of the Earth Norway.

By Tina Andersen Vågenes

/ 25 Nov 2014

Toxic waste: the death of the fjords?

The Nordic mining industry is planning to fill up Norway’s famous fjords with toxic waste. Fast earnings and cheap disposal methods may ruin the ecosystem. Massive protests against the government have begun, says Young Friends of the Earth Norway.

By Tina Andersen Vågenes

/ 25 Nov 2014