Green groups: - No oil in the Barents Region
Environmental youth organizations from Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Norway protested against oil-drilling in the Barents Region outside the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office in Oslo on Thursday.
One of the slogans said “Yes to sustainable cooperation!”
The demonstration in the Norwegian capital come simultaneously as Murmansk Governor Dmitri Dmitrienko ended his three-day visit to Norway. Dmitrienko’s main agenda in Norway has been to learn more about the successful oil cluster around the southwestern city of Stavanger in Norway, in order to establish a similar cluster in Murmansk.
The youth organizations Priroda i Molodezh from Murmansk, Aetas from Arkhangelsk and Nature and Youth from Norway are all strongly opposing the plans to drill for oil in the Barents Sea.
“We are tired of politicians and the media’s hysteria regarding allocation of petroleum contracts in the Barents Sea. Together we work to make the cooperation between our countries more sustainable and environmentally friendly,” says Stine Østnor from the Norwegian based Nature and Youth.
The message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Murmansk Governor Dmitri Dmitrienko was clear: “No petroleum in the Barents Region and yes to renewable energy.”
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The environmental organizations also raised the questions why the three northernmost counties in Norway, the Norwegian part of the Barents regional cooperation, were not included into the talks with the Russian Governor.
