{"id":25959,"date":"2020-01-02T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25959"},"modified":"2020-01-02T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:36:32","slug":"norway-refuses-to-drill-for-billions-of-barrels-of-oil-in-arctic-leaving-whole-industry-surprised-and-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25959","title":{"rendered":"Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving \u2018whole industry surprised and disappointed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Northern_Lights.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Lights\" class=\"wp-image-25960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Northern_Lights.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Northern_Lights-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest party in Norway\u2019s parliament has delivered a significant blow to the country\u2019s huge oil industry after withdrawing support for explorative drilling off the Lofoten islands in the Arctic, which are considered a natural wonder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move, by the opposition Labour party, creates a large parliamentary majority against oil exploration in the sensitive offshore area, illustrating growing opposition to the polluting fossil fuel, which has made the country one of the world\u2019s most affluent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/norway-oil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/norway-oil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest party in Norway\u2019s parliament has delivered a significant blow to the country\u2019s huge oil industry after withdrawing support for explorative drilling off the Lofoten islands in the Arctic, which are considered a natural wonder. The move, by the opposition Labour party, creates a large parliamentary majority against oil exploration in the sensitive offshore &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=25959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving \u2018whole industry surprised and disappointed\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25961,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25959\/revisions\/25961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}