I hate typing on my phone and English is not my first language, so I guess the point I was trying to make didn’t quite make its way through. Sorry.
The more conservative party left the coalition because they value their “sovereignty” and “independence” and thus don’t want to play by the rules of the EU. To me they basically just trade one Dependance for another. They want to still be able to sell their oil to the EU, so they depend on EU’s demand for oil, but they don’t want to give up some freedoms even though that in turn would bolster their independence in the energy sector (even more local renewable electricity production, improved infrastructure that would be less susceptible to failure, and so on).
It just makes no sense to me. The EU directives are actually quite in line (or could easily be spun into line) with the ideals of traditionally conservative parties. Yet everywhere (not just Norway), those parties HATE renewable energy. And I think it is pretty clear that money is the big factor here…
Also…maybe I’m blind, but nowhere in the article it’s mentioned that Norway produces its energy with hydro?
The 95% figure isn’t actually in the article text; @Terces@lemmy.world wouldn’t have seen it there. I put it in my comment, quoted text with it, but that was from Wikipedia.
I’d remembered past reading and discussion on the topic from /r/Europe on Reddit, where the impact on their hydropower water reserves was something of a sore point for some Norwegians.
If you’d bothered to read the article you would have learned that Norway is already at 95% renewable due to their Hydro Power.
I hate typing on my phone and English is not my first language, so I guess the point I was trying to make didn’t quite make its way through. Sorry.
The more conservative party left the coalition because they value their “sovereignty” and “independence” and thus don’t want to play by the rules of the EU. To me they basically just trade one Dependance for another. They want to still be able to sell their oil to the EU, so they depend on EU’s demand for oil, but they don’t want to give up some freedoms even though that in turn would bolster their independence in the energy sector (even more local renewable electricity production, improved infrastructure that would be less susceptible to failure, and so on).
It just makes no sense to me. The EU directives are actually quite in line (or could easily be spun into line) with the ideals of traditionally conservative parties. Yet everywhere (not just Norway), those parties HATE renewable energy. And I think it is pretty clear that money is the big factor here…
Also…maybe I’m blind, but nowhere in the article it’s mentioned that Norway produces its energy with hydro?
The 95% figure isn’t actually in the article text; @Terces@lemmy.world wouldn’t have seen it there. I put it in my comment, quoted text with it, but that was from Wikipedia.
I’d remembered past reading and discussion on the topic from /r/Europe on Reddit, where the impact on their hydropower water reserves was something of a sore point for some Norwegians.