{"id":391077,"date":"2020-12-23T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391077"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:00:35","slug":"norway-rejects-greenpeace-appeal-over-arctic-oil-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/norway-rejects-greenpeace-appeal-over-arctic-oil-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway rejects Greenpeace appeal over Arctic oil exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norway\u2019s supreme court on Tuesday approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea off the country\u2019s northern coast, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups.<\/p>\n<p>The groups, including Greenpeace, had claimed the oil licenses breached an article in the Norwegian constitution which guarantees the right to a healthy and viable environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe supreme court is rejecting the appeal,\u201d Chief Justice Toril Marie Oeie said as she announced the verdict on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Nature and Youth advocacy group denounced the ruling in a tweet: \u201cThis means today\u2019s youth lacks fundamental legal protection from environmental damage jeopardizing our future\u2026 This is shocking and we are furious.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway\u2019s supreme court on Tuesday approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea off the country\u2019s northern coast, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups. The groups, including Greenpeace, had claimed the oil licenses breached an article in the Norwegian constitution which guarantees the right to a healthy and viable environment. \u201cThe supreme court is rejecting the appeal,\u201d Chief Justice Toril Marie Oeie said as she announced the verdict on Tuesday. The Nature and Youth advocacy group denounced the ruling in a tweet: \u201cThis means today\u2019s youth lacks fundamental legal protection from environmental damage jeopardizing our future\u2026 This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}