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Only now, seven years later, does the information in the report come to light.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate report concluded that if the price of oil falls by 30 percent, the Barents Sea in the southeast as a whole will likely go into the red.
Unknown information
This was information that did not come to light when the Storting was informed and unanimously agreed to oil exploration in the southeastern Barents Sea area in 2013, nor in the district court and the Court of Appeal when the courts were to hear the climate lawsuit against the state, according to NRK.
Several professional management economists are said to have reacted to the handling, but the Ministry of Oil and Energy did not listen to them. Arguments the Storting received from the government were that values in the area could be between 50 and 280 billion crowns.
Law professor Hans Petter Graver from the University of Oslo (UiO) believes that there may have been various crimes in the prosecution of the case.
– sensational
– This is sensational information and completely incomparable. One inevitably wonders if this was a deliberate omission. It is almost unbelievable that the ministry has led the Storting and the courts behind the light, even if this was due to a mistake.Graver tells NRK.
The then Minister of Oil and Energy Ola Borten Moe (Sp), for his part, believes that the Storting received all the relevant information.
Greenpeace does not share that opinion.
– The Storting was misled and made a decision on the wrong basis. What emerges now, seven years later, is a scandal. Norway can lose billions in oil extraction and taxpayers keep the bill, says Frode Pleym, head of Greenpeace Norway, in a comment to NTB.
