to the FakeNews, Norway is a “climate leader”!
Both Climate Leader and Oil Giant? A Norwegian Paradox
New York Times - 17 Jun 2017
Court challenge to Arctic oil drilling in Norway defeated
Financial Times - Jan 4, 2018
Norway has defeated a lawsuit brought by environmental groups trying to block drilling for oil in the Arctic...
15 March: The Barents Observer: No halt in Norway’s hunger for Arctic oil
Amid growing protests against Arctic drilling, the Norwegian government proposes 48 new oil blocks in the Barents Sea
By Atle Staalesen
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Thursday announced that it proposes drilling on additional 90 blocks, 48 of them in the Barents Sea.
“It is important to keep up the positive development with exploration in the Barents Sea, […] I hope this will lead to robust field development solutions and enhanced industrial activity in the North,” the minister adds...
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology-industry-and-energy/2019/03/no-halt-norways-hunger-arctic-oil
Norway still heavily invested in coal
World Coal-4 Mar 2019
Norway’s Oil Fund has US$7.2 billion invested in the global coal industry
to the FakeNewsMSM, China is a climate leader!
China Is a Climate Leader but Still Isn’t Doing Enough on Emissions ...
New York Times - 19 Jul 2018
28 Mar: Greenpeace Unearthed: China’s power industry calls for hundreds of new coal power plants by 2030
Under the proposal, the country could add a large coal power plant every 2 weeks for the next 12 years
by Lauri Myllyvirta...
The largest power producers in China have asked the government to allow for the development of between 300 and 500 new coal power plants by 2030...
The cap would enable China to build 2 large coal power stations a month for the next 12 years, and grow the country’s capacity by an amount nearly twice the size of Europe’s total coal capacity…
https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/
1 May 2018: Foreign Policy: China’s Ready to Cash In on a Melting Arctic
Beijing has big plans for its own Polar Silk Road
By Sherri Goodman, Elisabeth Freese
That means a new route through the unfrozen Arctic, dominated by Chinese trade and tied into Beijing’s global ambitions...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/05/01/chinas-ready-to-cash-in-on-a-melting-arctic/
Macron is/was another FakeNewsMSM media darling:
Mr.Trump,the Climate Change Loner
The New York Times - 14 Jul 2017
President Emmanuel Macron of France tried this week during President Trump’s visit to Paris to get him to reverse his decision to take America out of the Paris climate accord..
5 March: Forbes: Forbes’ Richest Russian Gets Even Richer In LNG Deal
by Kenneth Rapoza
The richest Russian on the Forbes billionaire list, Leonid Mikhelson, became even richer on Tuesday after selling a 10% stake in its Arctic LNG project to France’s Total...
The deal for the sale of 10% of Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2 project was signed last year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum—deemed the Russian Davos—in the presence of president Vladimir Putin and France’s president Emmanuel Macron...
The Russian state reserves commission puts Arctic LNG-2 gas reserves at approximately 2 trillion cubic meters. The project will eventually include the construction of three LNG train terminals that can transport around 6.6 million tons per year each, using gravity-based structure platforms...
European companies are sharing in Mikhelson’s ice-cold Arctic wealth.
Italy-based Nuovo Pignone, an oil and gas industry equipment manufacturer owned in part by GE, secured a contract in December to provide turbo machinery equipment for a Novatek LNG export project. Siemens of Germany is also in with the Russians. They won a contract to provide equipment for the Arctic LNG 2 project...
American firms are sanctioned from providing any technical equipment used in the extraction of hydrocarbons in Russia’s Arctic. ExxonMobil was banned and later fined by the Obama administration for its joint venture with Rosneft in Russia’s Kara Sea, near the Yamal peninsula where Mikhelson is setting up an Arctic throne for Novatek...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/03/05/forbes-richest-russian-gets-even-richer-in-lng-deal/#41e0de27492d