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Natural resources are jointly owned, unless they are Norwegian.




(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)

- The rainforest is the world's lung, says Stoltenberg. The Norwegian government will protect the rainforest from commercial predation and deforestation, and will donate NOK XNUMX billion to a rainforest fund in Brazil.

At the end of last month, Støre traveled with his colleagues from the US, Canada, Denmark and Russia to Ilulissat in Greenland to confirm that the Arctic areas belong to them, and not everyone else. The ice melt, as a result of climate change, has opened up for major oil and gas discoveries, as well as new commercial sea routes becoming available.
– In everything that is about resources, transport and interests, you are constantly dealing with countries that are positioning themselves. It is the course of humanity, Støre said here in Ny Tid, in connection with the meeting in Greenland.

The vulnerable Arctic areas are thus not joint ownership. Nor is it oil, despite being formed over millions of years, long before it was called Norway. But the rainforest is. Brazil's President Lula da Silva has stated that countries that are among the worst polluters in the world do not need to advise Brazil on how to protect the rainforest, or talk about the Amazon as if the area belongs to the whole world.

In Norway, we have earned ourselves rich in the oil, and doubted that the oil on the Norwegian continental shelf belongs to the Norwegian people and that it should be landed and treated in Norway. That our natural resources belong to ourselves has been our successful development strategy. However, that does not mean that we do not own natural resources in other countries as well. Through our state-owned oil company StatoilHydro, we also own oil and gas in Angola, Azerbaijan and Algeria, among others.

And it doesn't stop there. The profits we get from destroying the climate by selling the oil, to record high oil prices, we use to buy up natural resources anywhere else in the world. The money collected in our huge oil fund, one of the world's largest money funds, has given us the opportunity to buy holdings in other large oil companies. Of the approximately 7.000 companies in which the Norwegian state is a co-owner, we have put the most money in the oil companies Shell, BP (British Petroleum) and Total. A total of over NOK 30 billion. This means that we also own natural resources in Nigeria, Mexico, Egypt, China, Canada, Vietnam, Pakistan, Colombia, Iran, Venezuela, Mozambique, the Faroe Islands. And Brazil. To mention some.

Today, natural resources are jointly owned – unless they are Norwegian. The rainforest is the world's lung, and the land's largest treasure trove of various plants and animals. Therefore, it is in the common interest to protect it against commercial predation. It is no different for the vulnerable and unique Arctic areas, or for the earth's climate which is destroyed by increased oil recovery. It is in the common interest of people, across national borders, to protect our livelihoods from commercial predation and destruction that provide short-term economic benefits. It is clear to see that we cannot leave it to our governments alone to wage this struggle for us.

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