Statoil ASA was a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. It merged with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA. The brand Statoil was retained as a chain of fuel stations owned by StatoilHydro. Statoil was the largest petroleum company in the Nordic countries. In the 2013 Fortune 500, Statoil was ranked as the 39th -largest company in the world. While Statoil was listed on both the Oslo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, the Norwegian state still held majority ownership, with 64%. The company's headquarters are located in Norway's oil capital Stavanger. The name Statoil was a truncated form of the State's oil (company).
Heidi Sørensen is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
The Kragerø Line was a 27-kilometer (17 mi) long railway line between Neslandsvatn and Kragerø in Telemark county, Norway. It was opened on 2 December 1927 as part of the Sørlandet Line. From 10 November 1935, the Sørlandet Line was extended from Neslandsvatn to Arendal, and the Kragerø Line became a branch. It was mostly served with feeder trains, although a through train to Oslo was kept until the 1970s. Falling ridership caused the line to become closed from 1 December 1989, along with many other branch lines. Part of the line remains, although other parts have been demolished.
The Alta conflict or Alta controversy was a series of protests in Norway in the late 1970s and early 1980s against the construction of a hydroelectric power plant on the Alta River in Finnmark, Northern Norway.
The Rotvoll controversy refers to a political controversy in Norway in 1991 concerning the construction of a research and development (R&D) facility for Statoil at Rotvoll outside Trondheim.
Bård Lappegård Lahn is a Norwegian environmentalist and writer. He is a researcher at CICERO, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, in Oslo, with a research focus on climate politics, sociology, and Science and Technology Studies. He has previously worked as an adviser on international climate policy in the Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, and from 2006 to 2008 he was chairman of the environmental NGO Natur og Ungdom. Prior to his leadership he had been deputy chairman since 2003 and an active member of Natur og Ungdom since the mid-1990s.
Ane Hansdatter Kismul is a Norwegian environmentalist and politician for the Centre Party.
Elin Lerum Boasson is a Norwegian environmentalist and was chairman of Natur og Ungdom in 2001 and 2002. She became active in the organisation in 1991, and joined the board in 1997 before she was elected deputy chairperson in 1999. She has a Master of Political Science degree from the University of Oslo and has since 2005 worked at Nansen Institute as a researcher.
Einar Bakke Håndlykken is a Norwegian environmentalist and director of the environmental foundation Zero Emission Resource Organisation (ZERO). Håndlykken started with environmentalism as a youth in Grenland Natur og Ungdom, and became deputy chairman of the national organisation in 1997 and served as its chairman in 1999 and 2000. He worked for Bellona from 2001 to 2002, when he co-founded ZERO.
Silje Schei Tveitdal is a Norwegian environmentalist and politician for the Socialist Left Party. She served as the party secretary from 2009 to 2015.
Zero Emission Resource Organisation or ZERO is a Norwegian environmental organisation that was founded in 2002 to work on the reduction of greenhouse gases, primarily in Norway. The philosophy of the organisation is that if new facilities are made emission-free, then when existing plants and methods are phased out due to old age and outdated technology, society is left with emission-free facilities. The primary working areas include CO2 disposal, renewable energy, especially wind power, and new transportation fuels, including hydrogen and biofuel. ZERO is organised as a foundation and was started by former activists and employees of Natur og Ungdom and Bellona. Funding sources include industrial associations and companies. ZERO is led by Marius Holm (director) and Erik Espeset (chairman).
Putsj is a magazine affiliated with the Norwegian environmental organisation Natur og Ungdom. The magazine was started in 2000. It is a youth magazine writing about topics related to youth, activism, culture and environmentalism. The headquarters of the magazine is in Oslo.
Trillemarka (Trillemarka-Rollagsfjell) is a 147 km2 (57 sq mi) nature reserve located in Buskerud, Norway. It was created on December 13, 2002, and is located in the hilly and mountainous areas between Nore in Numedal and Solevann in Sigdal, partially in the municipalities of Sigdal, Nore og Uvdal, and Rollag. The nature reserve consists of one of the largest natural forest areas in central Østlandet and includes virgin forest and 93 red list species.
The Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature, also known as Friends of the Earth Norway, is one of the largest Norwegian environmental organisations with approximately 24,000 members. The organisation is based on a volunteer work among the members, constituting work both at local and national levels. Norges Naturvernforbund works within a large range of environmental areas. The organisation is affiliated with Friends of the Earth, and member of INFORSE-Europe.
Fellesaksjonen mot gasskraftverk is a former environmental organisation that functioned as a binding among various NGOs who were opposed to the construction of fossile gas thermal power plants in Norway. It was created in all secrecy in 1997 and was able to collect about 3,000 people willing to use civil disobedience to hinder the construction, before going public to announce this resistance. The organization was disestablished in 2002.
Ragnar Frislid was a Norwegian writer, photographer and environmentalist.
Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) is the European branch of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). It includes 33 national organizations and thousands of local groups.
Silje Ask Lundberg is a Norwegian environmentalist and chairperson of Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature. She is a former leader of Nature and Youth. She grew up in Harstad in Northern Norway. Prior to her leadership, she has been deputy chairman and been working for other environmental organisations, such as ZERO and Bellona Foundation.
Young Greens of Norway is the youth league of the Norwegian Green Party. The organization was founded in 1996, and its current spokespeople (2023) are Tobias Stokkeland and Margit Martinsen. The Young Greens works to promote green ideology, its mother party's political program, and youths' engagement in politics. The co-spokespersons of Young Greens of Norway are Anna Serafima Svendsen Kvam from Oslo and Ola Eian from Osen i Sør-Trøndelag. Young Greens of Norway has 780 (2022) members and 19 local groups, one in each county.
Ingrid Skjoldvær is a Norwegian environmentalist and a former chairperson of the youth environment environmental organisation Nature and Youth. She comes from Sortland Municipality in Vesterålen and has held several positions in the organisation, most recently as deputy chairperson, before she was elected as head of the organisation on 10 January 2016, a position she held until 2017.
