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...This is about the people vs. the powers that be, and we'll fight till we drop," said Chuck Hill, 66, the new town manager, one morning. I had invited five people to breakfast; 40 showed up. Thunder Valley Inn owner Anita Nelson, in Norsk regalia, got on the piano and pounded out an anti-Perrier sing-along to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the lesson is this: never underestimate the will or resourcefulness of people who are snowed in half the year...
...pulling hydrogen from fossil fuels is that it leaves carbon dioxide behind. If the CO2 is simply vented into the atmosphere, global warming will be as big a problem as ever. There is an alternative though: pump it into the ground. In Norway, for example, the energy company Norsk Hydro is building a power plant that will be fueled with hydrogen drawn from natural gas. The CO2 that's left over will be reinjected into an oil field on the continental shelf. Not only will this take the carbon dioxide out of circulation but it will also pressurize the field...
...world looks upon all these resources and salivates. Texaco, Exxon, Amoco, Norsk Hydro and other transnational oil companies are setting up joint ventures to tap into the enormous oil and gas reserves scattered through Siberia, including the Timan Pechora basin above the Arctic Circle (where the recoverable reserves are estimated at nearly 4 billion bbl.). Canadian, American and other Western mining companies are prospecting for gold and other minerals. Norwegian and Japanese interests are negotiating to increase shipping between Europe and Asia by way of arctic waters north of Siberia...
...Sognnaes won the prize of the Norsk Tanvern in 1948 for distinguished Norsk Tanvern in 1948 for distinguished decay resulting from Northern Europe's World War II food rations...
Norway. Explosions in Oslo harbor sank two ships, damaged two more. The powerful Norsk hydroelectric plant at Rjukan was blown up. German occupation forces used planes to hunt down and strafe civilians who daily fled over the rocky frontier into Sweden. Two more leading quislings were killed...