{"id":7672,"date":"2020-04-21T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T05:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2020-04-21T00:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:29:35","slug":"norway-supreme-court-to-hear-case-against-arctic-oil-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/norway-supreme-court-to-hear-case-against-arctic-oil-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway supreme court to hear case against Arctic oil exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>Norway\u2019s supreme court will hear a lawsuit opposing the country\u2019s Arctic oil exploration brought by Greenpeace and other environmental groups, it said on Monday, in a landmark case for Western Europe\u2019s largest oil and gas producer. The environmental groups argue that the Norwegian government\u2019s decision to grant oil exploration licences in 2016 in the Arctic Barents Sea to oil firms, including Equinor, was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Two lower courts, however, have found that the government\u2019s decision was legal, rejecting the activists\u2019 claim it breached the Norwegian people\u2019s constitutional right to a healthy environment. In a sign of the case\u2019s importance, the supreme court said the case would be heard by the full court, but did not give a date. The lawsuit is part of an emerging branch of legal action worldwide, where plaintiffs seek to use a nation\u2019s founding principles to make the case for curbing emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being led by Greenpeace as well as Nature and Youth, Norway\u2019s largest youth environmental group. They say Arctic exploration will lead to higher emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide and endanger wildlife. \u201cWe look forward to a thorough examination as to whether the government breached the Constitution when they choose to grant new oil licences in the Arctic even though they knew the world was in the midst of a climate crisis,\u201d Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace in Norway, told Reuters. Oil companies have already drilled exploration wells in some licences awarded in 2016, but have not made any significant discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-norway-oil-environment\/norwegian-supreme-court-to-hear-lawsuit-against-arctic-oil-exploration-idUSKBN2221WH?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=environmentNews\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway\u2019s supreme court will hear a lawsuit opposing the country\u2019s Arctic oil exploration brought by Greenpeace and other environmental groups, it said on Monday, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[1276,1275,1274],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csr-news-en","tag-arctic-oil","tag-court","tag-norway","wpcat-32-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/northern-light.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7676,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}