Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants

[hunter]

The Norwegian parliament has voted to open up protected rivers to hydropower plants, prompting fury from conservation groups who fear for the fate of fish and other wildlife.

The bill allows power plants bigger than 1MW to be built in protected waterways if the societal benefit is “significant” and the environmental consequences “acceptable”. It was voted through on Thursday as part of measures to improve flood and landslide protection.

Une Bastholm, a Green member of parliament, described the proposal as “a historic attack on Norwegian nature” when it was unveiled last week.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/13/norway-to-open-protected-rivers-to-hydropower-plants

Norway is increasingly being used as an electric battery by the rest of Europe which drives up the cost of electricity for Norwegian consumers, all to support the wind and solar follies of anti-nuclear activists.

We are not going to save the world by destroying it. We ought to be tearing down dams, not building new ones.

[Lovie777]

1. The new power source...............

[NNadir]

2. The reality of so called "renewable energy" is that it renders wilderness into...

...industrial parks.

Of course wherever we discuss Norway one should note that the country got very rich drilling the North Sea for oil and gas.

With Russia out of the picture, antinuke heaven, Germany is the biggest customer for all of Norway"s energy products, including electricity.

Every once in a while Stadtoil makes a big splash with rhetoric about carbon sequestration then quietly abandons the magic "solution" as "too expensive."