Friday, November 28, 2014

Norwegian diplomats sexual harassment by the KGB: Took pictures of naked Norwegian diplomat – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Having been on a circus performance on 9 January 1959, the 39-year-old Norwegian diplomat invited by two young Russians to an apartment in Moscow, where they drank liquor. When he had undressed and sat on the bed, stormed the Russian police into the apartment.

“Two men in dark coats and hats stood in the doorway, lightning blazed and photography apparatus clicked before someone got to sigh itself “, says the PST document.”

A colonel was summoned and should have given the Norwegian two choices. One choice was that the images would be handed the Foreign Ministry. The second choice was that he wrote this text in an interrogation document:

“I will in my ability at my side helping KGB with information that it needs.”

The diplomat even wrote this text and signed. The day after he told of the terrifying experience to his ambassador in Moscow. Shortly after he returned home to Oslo to give reports. He denied having given Russians information or documents that could harm Norway or allied countries.



Named as KGB agent

Dagbladet since summer written about Mitrokhin Archive. Archives naming a number of Norwegian toppdiplomater as KGB agents, among other things a Norwegian diplomat have been squeezed because of their homosexual orientation. He should have given at least a thousand Nato and UD documents 70s KGB, according to the archive. KGB gave diplomat deck name “Oscar”.

This is the same diplomat who was photographed in Moscow in 1959. Dagbladet has repeatedly talked diploma grenade family, they would not comment on this case.

Now Dagbladet gained access to nearly five hundred pages of investigative material from PST applicable diplomat, and a number of other diplomats who were monitoring the police spotlight.

In a number of interviews with monitoring police told the diplomat about how he was pressured by KGB . In 1971 he admitted having given UD documents to the KGB, but he claimed that there was talk of unclassified documents.



– Safety Risk

The then Chief of Police Intelligence Service (current PST) Asbjørn Bryhn reacted strongly to that one continued to use diplomat after the incident in Moscow. Already 31 January 1959 he sent his first warnings to the Foreign Ministry.

“On the basis of all the cases we now have faced it must be emphasized that people with such inclinations (…) represents a security risk” , writes Bryhn. In 1966 he warned again of Foreign Affairs.

“Only in recent years has occurred a significant number of cases where homosexuality, alcoholism, mess economy, extramarital adventures, illegal currency transactions and black is been exploited as a means of coercion “ wrote Bryhn.

Sex traps

Especially diplomats with homosexual orientation was vulnerable. Homosexuality was banned in Norway until 1972. In Russia, homosexuality first allowed in 1993. In a period just after World War II was ambassador, Counsellor and attackable heen at the Norwegian embassy in Moscow in love with the same Russian man, it stands in PST documents . Attachés is the same man who gave the KGB codename “Oscar”. He was 25 years old when he came to Moscow.

19. January 1959, he was interrogated by Oslo police.

“At that time I was – on the basis of the common people spoke – aware ambassador and Counsellor inclinations. Although I was unclear about that the same forces latent in me, but had always sought to counter them “, explains diplomat in interviews with PST.

The young Russian man was described as “slim, well-proportioned, wide face with a little coarse, regular features.” The man was a language teacher for the Norwegian diplomats.

The diplomat and the young Russian man met in the apartment of Counsellor when he was out. “This became known to the ambassador. He should have been angry and upset because he was jealous “, wrote attachés. He became aware that the KGB came with the relationship, and the Russian man chose to end contact.



Revolver under the pillow

Counsellor and attachés also had a relationship with a well thirty years old Russian . They were on many trips together. The Russian man was called in for questioning by the KGB.

“He had learned that they knew all about his relationship with Counsellor and me. They had shown him compromising photographs where also the ambassador and other Russians were involved “, said the diplomat to PST.

The Russian man ” now had the choice between exile or still dealings with me as contact man on condition that he could obtain information. He chose the latter, should he get the money and clothing », explained the diplomat. Also ambassador was subjected to strong pressure.

“The last time in Moscow went ambassador armed with a revolver. He had it under his pillow when he slept. “

The last days before the ambassador traveled was the phone until he constantly putting pressure on him. They wanted him to give information about Norway and other Western allies. The ambassador had lately worked to bring a young boy he had taken responsibility for Moscow. He wanted him to Norway. Authorities in Moscow accepted this application against the ambassador “stood at the disposal of certain facts.”

The last week before he left the Norwegian embassy, ​​he should have been hysterical when Russians rang, it stands in PST file.
All three Norwegian diplomats returned home to Oslo, but attachés came back to Moscow in 1957 where he again was under pressure after Russian police took a picture of him and two young men.

Sauna images

Then the same diplomat later would serve as charge d’affaires at the Norwegian embassy in Athens, he came soon in contact with KGB men in the Greek capital. One of the new compounds his was the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev, the same man who was guiding officer Douglas Britten, a boss technician at RAF who was sentenced to 21 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet Union.

The diplomat also continued their homosexual activities in Athens. That led to a Greek diplomat visited Undersecretary Thorvald Stoltenberg in Oslo on July 26, 1971. The Greek diplomat began the meeting by saying that he came in a very sad case. In a memo from the meeting states that the police had found the Norwegian diplomat while he had sexual relations with a young man in a bathroom in Athens. It was taken photographs.

In a memo from the meeting with Stoltenberg says:

“The action is contrary to the Greek legislation and the government had therefore declared the Norwegian who persona non grata “. The Norwegian diplomat had to travel immediately and packing was entrusted to the embassy. It was necessary: ​​ “in the interests of the two states” .

Last meeting

The Norwegian diplomat said afterwards that he felt he was cheated in a trap in Athens, and that it was all planned from the Greek police. As a diplomat, he had warned strongly against the Greek regime policy. He acknowledged that he had given up some documents to his Russian contacts in Athens, but argued that this was only documents that were not graded.

When the KGB for the last time met diplomat 80s he had enough, according to Mitrokhin Archive. In the archive says: “But he assured KGB that he had not told anything about the details of their relationship to the KGB, and that he would rather not do it, as long as they” let him be at peace. ‘”

Top diplomat was never charged, indicted or convicted of espionage by Norwegian authorities. All three diplomats continued to work in various positions in the Foreign Ministry and by numerous embassies.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

KrF in budget negotiations – Norway TODAY

KrF i budsjettforhandlinger

DEBATT: KrF krever to millioner til undervisning i homofili i barnehage og skole i budsjettforhandlingene.


Norge IDAG kunne i sin utgave 14. november gi følgende opplysninger:

"I sitt alternative statsbudsjett lover KrF to millioner kroner til LLH's prosjekt, Rosa kompetanse, et undervisningsprosjekt om homofili i skole og barnehage. Dette skjer mot regjeringens vilje, som i fjorårets budsjett kuttet støtten til tiltaket.

Det er også en av grunnene til at KrF, og spesielt Hareide, nå hylles av norsk homobevegelse, som sier det er tydelig at han har andre holdninger enn KrF-lederne før ham".

Da er det imidlertid på sin plass å påpeke at også under Bondevikregjeringen med Dåvøy som barne- og familieminister var KrF med på å bevilge store summer, både til forskning og direkte til Landsforeningen for lesbiske og homofile (LLH). Landsforeningens budsjett ble styrket fra og med 2002 og fikk 2 mill. kroner i driftsstøtte pr. år, også den gang. Det kommer fram av notatet om "Konkrete tiltak som er gjennomført med KrF i regjering", at dette er en klar positiv særbehandling.

Det ble gitt over to millioner til informasjonsarbeid, undervisningsopplegg knyttet til homofili, samt ressursbok for lærere. Dette er midler som ble til bøker, skolesett, filmstøtte og infokampanjen "Gay på landet". I tillegg til flere bevilgninger som klart er knyttet til samme tema.

Dette var bevilgninger som foregikk i det stille og skjulte, og som man nok ikke kjente til nedover i partiapparatet og hos medlemmene. Det er derfor ikke en ny trend, men det understreker alvoret i å gi særstøtte til en organisasjon som var sterkt involvert i å endre landets ekteskapslov. Det kan også gi en pekepinn på hvorfor ikke engasjementet var stort fra sentralt hold i KrF i kampen for å reversere nåværende ekteskapslov. Tvert imot har de vært med på å bevilge penger til en organisasjon som jobbet for det motsatte, og som derved fikk store midler til å drive aktiv lobbyvirksomhet og påvirke for å få gjennomført kjønnsnøytral ekteskapslov.

Partiet De Kristne mener det er på sin plass å påpeke klare politiske føringer inn i samfunnet vårt ved undervisning av barn, som ofte går i helt andre retninger enn det foreldrene ønsker. Vi ser det også oppsiktsvekkende og bekymringsfullt at et parti som påberoper seg å bygge på Bibelens verdier, kan framføre en slik politikk.

For Fylkesstyret i Partiet De Kristne, Østfold

Inger Marit Sverresen, Fylkesleder

Inger Marit Sverrensen, De Kristne
26.11.2014 18:39

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

- Norwegian toppolitiker got Norwegians to work for the KGB – TV 2

Hans folder with monitoring police was 75 centimeters thick, and after his death paid the state the maximum amount of compensation of 350,000 crowns for illegal surveillance.

In 1994, said Justice Minister Grete Faremo that Klassekampen disclosure of surveillance which he was subjected, led to the monitoring instructions were changed. In 2001 asked Justice Minister Odd Einar Dørum whole family to apologize on behalf of the Norwegian state.



Got telefonavlyttet 13 years

Surveillance Police (POT ) romavlyttet his cabin in Bamble, tapped his phone for 13 years and span on him during meetings with KGB officers. But despite that he was monitored both personal and party purposes, got POT never strong enough evidence resistance fighter and party chairman Knut Løfsnes that they could initiate criminal proceedings against him.

Over 20 years after surveillance against him started, he met a representative monitoring service who asked him about contact with Soviet intelligence people over the years.

Class match reports about monitoring of Knut Løfsnes caused a great stir. Photo: Ove Rønning Country / class struggle

POT knew that he had had contact with Gennady Titov, KGB top who ruled UD spy Gunvor Galtung Haavik and later met Arne Treholt abroad after having been declared persona non grata in Norway for life. But exactly what Knut Løfsnes in 1978 told POT about his KGB contacts, remains a locked secret in the archives of the Police Security Service.

So how was his contact with the Soviet intelligence service KGB?

WE RETURN TO March 1992: It’s only a few months ago the newspaper class struggle published verbatim, bugged conversations and notes that built on bugged conversations between the former chairman of the Socialist People’s Party (SF), Knut Løfsnes and key players in SF and CPN. The documents proved according to the newspaper that the monitoring police ran with systematic political surveillance when the Socialist Left Party (SV) was founded in 1972.

A separate committee is on this currently underway with a white paper on monitoring and eavesdropping Løfsnes case is one of the cases that end up in the committee table.

To so Mitrokhin out when he defected. Photo: Private / Churchill Archives Centre

In Moscow rises a 69 year old man into the night train to Riga. He has in the years after he retired as chief archivist at the KGB, the required notes he made from 1972 to 1984, while he had access to 300,000 folders with KGB secrets.

In beginning there were notes hidden in shoes, and eventually became the documents and papers in his jacket pocket, with great danger of being discovered and liquidated. He has decided to defect to the West, and bring the documents he has dug down by country outside Moscow.

When he arrives Riga, seek Vasily Mitrokhin first the US Embassy. But he is rejected by the CIA representative he can talk to, who does not believe in his story.



MI6 got information about Norwegians

Mitrokhin proceeding to the British embassy, ​​where he meeting with MI6 says he joined the KGB in 1948 and 1956 to 1984 was responsible for the archive to the KGB first main directorate, department abroad espionage. MI6 understands that information Mitrokhin sits on can be of invaluable importance and agreements another meeting with him following month.

The headquarters of the British intelligence service MI6, also known as Secret Intelligence Service . Photo: Pa Photos / NTB scanpix

For the next meeting with MI6 in Riga in April 1992 Mitrokhin with over 2,000 typewritten pages, as a kind of “sample” of the British secret services. The documents must undoubtedly have made an impression, for he will be flown to London, where details of the defection being planned.

At the same time blowing it to storm around the Norwegian monitoring police. Aftenposten journalist Harald Stanghelle writes in late April that the Parliamentary Scrutiny has concluded that POT monitoring Løfsnes have been illegal. And just weeks later asking Prosecutions Økokrim scrutinize document leak in Løfsnes case.

The no know, however, while the debate on illegal surveillance races in Norway during summer and autumn 1992, the Mitrokhin documents, as MI6 get shipped home to the UK in several operations, contains names and information on a number of Norwegians who have been in contact with the KGB.

Along with Mitrokhin goes MI6 through the documents, and conducting a comprehensive debriefing before the information is shared with collaborative services. For it is the different countries secret services’ mission to contribute to the identification of who is hiding behind the KGB pseudonym and the sometimes shadowy descriptions Mitrokhin give about the people.

TV 2, together with Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, Åsmund Egge, undergone Mitrokhin Archive held at Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. Large parts of the unique material was opened for inspection in July. Photo: Kjell Persen / TV 2

12. May 1992 COMPLETES POT a new note in Case 9153, the three quarters feet thick folder about Knut Løfsnes. This paper is a summary of Løfsnes ‘connections to Soviet embassy personnel, and states that by about 1960 it was the KGB Resident yourself as extensively was Løfsnes’ KGB contact. POT writes thus a report on Løfsnes while criticism surveillance of him and others on the left grows.

Why do they do it? Could it be that Løfsnes are discussed in the documents that MI6 has secretly secured?

Behind a tire names to one of the over 30 Norwegians who Mitrokhin reviews, it is a description that is strikingly similar Løfsnes:

William Colby (later CIA director) and Herbert Helgesen in Trondheim 17th of May parade 1945. Photo: Trondheim byarkiv

“Lan”: Partiløs, participant in the resistance movement, former employee of the Norwegian military intelligence service, inroads in the Norwegian contra espionage.

Knut Løfsnes participated in the resistance movement during World War II, and led moreover intelligence organization XUS work in Trøndelag and in the Middle Norway area. After the war he got a job in what later became the Police Monitoring Service (POT), but that autumn he was summoned to police inspector Asbjørn Bryhn. He was told to quit on the day, Løfsnes written in her biography “Resistance Male and politician: from XU to SF and Kings Bay”:

“There are way and get out immediately. I have no time for more talk, “said Bryhn and pointed at the door. “You must understand the reason.”

Facsimile one of the Swedish security police surveillance reports Knut Løfsnes.

Was he considered a security risk? One of those who disliked his Communist contacts was Herbert Helgesen, the Trøndelag sausage maker who was a CIA agent.



Was enlisted in 1943

In the further description of the resistance fighter “Lan” reads Mitrokhin typed notes, which was opened for inspection at Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge in July this year, he was recruited by Soviet intelligence in Stockholm in 1943.

During the war escaped Løfsnes to Sweden during a breakneck escape when he realized that Rinnan-gang had disclosed the local intelligence organization in Namdalen. In Sweden he was attached to the Military Office at the Stockholm legation, including charge of Norwegian military intelligence missions.

Could it be correct that he had contact with Soviet intelligence there?

According to SAPO had Løfsnes contact with a Soviet intelligence officer in Stockholm.

Autobiography his says nothing about it, but in the Swedish security police SAPO archives TV 2 found “folder” to Løfsnes, stating that he was in Sapo spotlight in 1944 and 1945.

The day after Independence Day, 9 May 1945, authored SÄPO a report on Løfsnes, which starts as follows:

” Thursday 20th April 1944 at 21 o’clock observed correctional officer Sjöstedt the Soviet officer Fedor Tjernov Gamla Drottningsholmsvägen near Gubbkärrsvägen in company with one for Sjöstedt unknown man. “

Asbjørn Sunde passed away after sentencing in spy case in 1954. He is among the Norwegian Communists featured in the top-secret Venona material with deck name “Oswald”. Photo: NTB scanpix

Report printer continues with to describe how the Swedish investigators followed the Russian intelligence man and the unknown, which eventually disappeared in a taxi. Investigators lost contact with the unknown man, but later managed to track down the taxi driver, who could tell that the passenger was speaking Norwegian. He got the address, and it turned out that it was Knut Løfsnes who lived there.

Fedor Tjernov was after the war identified by US intelligence in the highly sensitive kodeknekkingsprosjektet Venona as intelligence officer with the alias “Valentin “. Venona material contributed during the Cold War to reveal several Soviet spies, but was so secret that it was not used in trials as evidence. Also POT sits on a substantial Venona material.

TV 2 in the archives of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in general found decrypted Stockholm messages from 1943 and 1944 where the assumed name “Lan” is mentioned, but not identified. A message sent to Moscow in November 1943 highlights three Norwegian NKVD partisans who have arrived Sweden and will meet the Soviet legation. “I await your instructions,” printed on “Lan” and partisans in the message to spy boss Pavel Fitin.

pseudonym” NORMAN “: According to Mitrokhin Archive created KGB contact Johan Strand Johansen in late 1945. He was a member of Einar Gerhardsen coalition government as Minister of Labour. Photo: NTB scanpix

– KGB gave support to law education

In Mitrokhin notes of “Lan” states that after the war graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo, and that the KGB resident flight in Oslo gave him “material tsjekiststøtte “to education. Again information to conform Løfsnes, which took jurist education in Oslo after the war.

Mitrokhin documents also claim that the Norwegian man with the alias “Lan” contributed to the KGB had “roof of Norway’s defense plan (1947), reports from the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow and diplomatic documents from UD. ” “Lan” shall moreover through its “bridging” ensured the recruitment of a Norwegian Foreign Ministry employee referred to as “North” and the Secretary “Kari” by the US embassy in Oslo.

Secretary “Kari” is in Mitrokhin documents featured along with other members of Asbjørn Sunde group. Resistance man and saboteur Asbjørn Sunde was arrested in 1954 and convicted of espionage.

According to KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin was “Lan”, Asbjørn Sunde and Gerhardsen Minister Johan Strand Johansen part of a Norwegian KGB agent network, which mainly consisted of communists.

Lund Commission, which investigated allegations of illegal surveillance of Norwegian citizens, came to the conclusion that central representatives in SF, and especially party chairman Knut Løfsnes had extensive contacts with representatives of Soviet Union and countries in Eastern Europe, also intelligence agents. Monitoring Service believed that the KGB Resident in several meetings appeared “very conspiratorial.”

In 1996, Parliament passed Lund Commission Report: Photo: NTB scanpix

Was bugged “for reasons of national security”

Lund Commission points out that during telephone bugging of Løfsnes came forward information to indicate that he was classified NATO information through its contact with the secretary of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, Erik Nord, which was loaned Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

But telephone bugging strengthened not suspicion against Løfsnes.

When POT wanted to continue telephone bugging of Løfsnes in 1974 came it appears in the petition that POT considered still phone control as “required for reasons of national security”: He was suspected of illegal intelligence activities and violations of the law on defense secrets. Consult court gave consent to continue the telephone control in six months.

Then ceased telephone bugging, having spanned almost 13 years.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Supports amateur soccer in the LSK hall with 2.1 million – Rome Blad

“If Skedsmo municipality pays subsidies to recreational sports in LSK, given children and young people still allowed to use the hall and LSK Hall AS gets paid for the rental of the hall. LSK, this means 2.1 million in less spending and budget will make a profit of 1.5 million. LSK is dependent on creating surplus in operations to serve the long-term debt and short-term debt to internal “writes alderman in a memorandum to the presidency.



Cover with property tax

It is not available funds to cover the said grants within the ordinary budget, with it can be covered up from unused funds from property tax.

According to the EEA Agreement can not Skedsmo municipality provide funds for the elite part of LSK, which are considered commercial. This means that A-side use of the hall, estimated to cost 800,000 crowns, falls outside a possible aid scheme.

LSKs term debt is NOK 14.4 million. The internal debt of LSK AS and the hall is 8.5 million. LSK owe Skedsmo municipality 1.1 million, while accounts payable at 3.3 million. In addition, a investorlån at 1,500,000 counted. The long-term debt of 31 million.

While LSK previously on a purchase of LSK hall by the municipality as the only solution, a possible contribution to rent from the club side launched in meeting 20 November. The club would still primarily selling hall.

From the accounts 2013 to 2015 budget here cut 10.5 million dollars. Liquidity will be tight over the next half year.

Nordea will grant LSK one year grace period for loans to Arasen Property, if the municipality contributes grants. It represents seven million in liquidity. Other lenders have previously said the RB that they will do the same, which is also a prerequisite from the bank.



Treat Wednesday

The case comes up in Skedsmo presidency Wednesday. After that previously emerged Progress has proposed that the municipality must buy the hall. It says they alone.

Conservatives and Labour have indicated that they are in set on finding a solution.

– We will be part of something in relation to the lease of the LSK hall and what is possible within the legal framework. Whether it’s enough, I have no prerequisite to believe anything about right now, says leader of the Conservatives Kjartan Berland.

Labour Party group leader Jørgen Vik also work to find a good solution for LSK.

– This is a more realistic possibility of getting solution than the LSK has put on the table earlier, says Vik.



LSK hoping solution

LSKs CEO Anita Bjerke is positive dialogue team had Skedsmo municipality.

– We find that the municipality is both welcoming and solution. We hope that also politicians are there and we are excited about the outcome of Wednesday’s meeting, says Bjerke.

A Presidency decisions similar to the alderman has outlined in his report, will be well received at Arasen.

– Such a decision we hope will contribute to that we can find a solution, says LSKs general manager.

See latest edition of Behind Goal!

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discourages copyrighted API is – digi.no

A wide variety of computer scientists, several of which must be regarded as pioneers in their field, have signed an amicus curiae note to US Supreme Court where it argued against a decision that programming interfaces, or APIs should be covered by copyright.

– The undersigned has been addicted decades of custom which has recognized the open nature of the API is, which has allowed them to etc, are implementing these APIs to create new software. The undersigned depends and expects the inherent openness of APIs to support innovation from both startup companies and market leaders, according to the note.

Amicus curiae notes are intended as information or views to a court from someone who is not a party in a particular case.

In this case it is right battle between Oracle and Google about the latter use of Java APIs in Android Dalvik engine it’s all about. In May ruled the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington that the structure to the API is protected by copyright, contrary to the outcome of the first straight round. Google appealed in October this decision to the Supreme Court.

The researchers believe that the Federal Circuits have undermined the established expectations on a dangerous manner.

EFF
It is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has taken the initiative to the note, which was signed by 77 computer scientists. The list is mildly impressive and includes people who, alone or together with others has created programming languages ​​and systems that AppleScript, AWK, C ++, Haskell, IBM S / 360, Java, JavaScript, Lotus 1-2-3, MS-DOS, Python, RAID, RISC, Scala, Smalltalk, TCP / IP, Unix and Wiki, ie inventors Vint Cerf, Brendan Eich, Brian Kernighan, Bjarne Stroustrup and Ken Thompson.

It should however be noted that more than a handful of the 77 people on the list today are Google employees. Their independence of the court case can thus be discussed.

– Federal Circuits decision was incorrect and dangerous for technological innovation, says Corynne McSherry, director of intellectual property EFF, in a statement.

– To exclude APIs from copyright protection has been essential for the development of modern computers and the internet.

In the note listed a number of widely used technologies that probably would not have been created or received such widespread if copyright API had been enforced. This includes BIOS, the original IBM-compatible PC, reimplementeringen UNIX API in modern operating systems, programming language C, a variety of basic networking technologies – including “sockets” and HTTP, as well as general software that creates compatibility across different systems .


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- Not dangerous to ride Oppdølsstranda – Driva

The risk is newly registered at Sunndal municipality list.

As previously discussed in Driva has been an ambition of many to facilitate pedestrians and cyclists through the new Oppdølsstrandtunnelen. Today tunnel closed for feathering road. Ramboll concluded in the report that special arrangements in the form of cross-sectional expansion or own bike tunnel will not be economically viable. The report shows that a rather could have offered taxi for all riders through the tunnel. This is estimated to amount to around 700,000 per year. As will be considerably cheaper than the investment cost of additional tunnel profile. “Although such a consideration is no realistic alternative, it helps to put the benefits and costs in perspective.”

The note appears however that the likelihood that a cyclist will perish as a result of landslides along the old road through the beach is very small.

“Basically, we thus believe that cyclists should be able to use existing roads rather than using tunnels,” said the conclusion.

Ramboll points out that the existing road will eventually get poorer accessibility in line with the maintenance ends.

“Nevertheless, we believe that in many years will be able to make his way on this stretch with significantly lower risk than previously since traffic is gone.”

As previously discussed in Driva is NPRA started with a work that should result in an overall strategy for the tunnels that open for cyclists and which must be closed. Today 18 of the total of just over 90 tunnels in the county closed to pedestrians and cyclists. Among them is the 7.5 km long Oppdølsstrandtunnelen. The nearly 6 km long tunnel and Øksendal the 2.3 km long Skrøotunnelen, however – perhaps surprisingly for some – not closed for pedestrians and cyclists. But both of these it is also possible to cycle the old road around.

Read the full consultant report here.

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We want to be depoliticised – NRK

Det er i et notat om hvilken kommunikasjonsstrategi selskapet bør bruke fram mot 2020 for å «avpolitisere premissene» for sin virksomhet at dette kommer fram, skriver Dagens Næringsliv.

Kommunikasjonsstrategien har fire hovedmål hvorav de andre tre er å «oppdatere tilnærmingen for dialog med norske interessenter og folkestemningen», å sikre selskapets lisens for å operere og skape aksept for Statoils veivalg og rammebetingelser, samt tette gapet som tilsynelatende eksisterer mellom Statoils interesser og samfunnets interesser.

Informasjonsdirektør Jannik Lindbæk jr. avviser at dette er en ny linje fra Statoil, og påpeker at da selskapet ble børsnotert, gikk man fra en situasjon der politikerne hadde direkte politisk innflytelse over selskapet til å bli et kommersielt selskap.

– Det var en milepæl. Vi ønsker at denne rollefordelingen skal videreføres. For oss handler det om å synliggjøre betydningen av rammebetingelsene Statoil har hatt, sier han.

– Det å avpolitisere Statoil og fjerne selskapet fra største eier og dem som utøver myndighet, høres ikke veldig klokt ut, sier Aps energipolitiske talsmann Terje Lien Aasland.

Leif Sande, leder i forbundet Industri Energi, mener Statoil allerede har veldig stor politisk frihet, og således ikke har noe å klage over.

(NTB)

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Send this arikkelen email – Dagens Næringsliv

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Professional driver fill drove from work party – Adresseavisen

It was in June this year that the 31-year-old professional driver drove to a job fixing in Trondheim.

“He drank beer such quantities that he now can not remember what happened,” said the in the fresh sentence against the man. 31-year-old woke up in police smooth cell the next morning, and therefore knew that he had driven while drunk from work party. The defendant denied guilt in Sør-Trøndelag District Court, and explained that he did not remember anything from that night.



Asleep at the wheel

The court however sure that 31-year-old ran with blood alcohol from the party venue just before 1:00 at night. He stopped at a gas station on Saupstad, where he fell asleep in the driver’s seat. The staff at the petrol station alerted the police, who came and woke profession driver.

The man had to make a blow test and it showed alcohol values ​​far above legal limit. Patrols therefore decided to bring in 31-year-old police station to take a blood sample from him. On the way into the man made difficult and refused to provide personal and residential addresses of the officers.



In the cell

After the blood sample was taken, professional driver sat on smooth cell. In one police officer closed the door, turned 31-year-old “finger” to him with both hands.

The defendant’s blood showed a blood alcohol in 2.12 approx one hour after the run, which the court describes as a very high blood alcohol. The judges believe the potential damage was substantial and find it aggravating that traffic happening on roads which are normally congested even at night.

In addition to drinking and driving judged also the man for having refused to provide their personal as well as for having molested a public servant. The penalty is set to 36 days in jail and in addition must 31-year-old pay a fine of 10,000 dollars.

In addition debarment 31-year-old right to drive a motor vehicle in two and a half years. Defender emphasized in court that this will affect the client disproportionately in that he is a professional driver. For this match court that loss leads right almost always involve great park and / or economic consequences.

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Sunday, November 23, 2014

- Decline trend is intact – Dagens Næringsliv

Oljepris

Prisene på oljekontrakter stiger mandag morgen for tredje dag på rad.

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Oljeprisene ligger likevel omtrent på samme nivå som de gjorde da Oslo Børs stengte fredag.

Ønske

Oppgangen kommer blant annet på bakgrunn av at Iran uttrykker ønske om å unngå ytterligere prisnedgang, noe som styrker spekulasjoner om at de største oljeprodusentene i Opec forbereder seg på å støtte markedet, skriver Bloomberg News.

Irans president Hassan Rouhani instruerte oljedepartementet til å benytte «oljediplomativerktøyet» for å stanse prisfallet, ifølge det statlige informasjonsbyrået Mehr.

Reduserte produksjonen

Saudi-Arabia og Kuwait begynte torsdag i forrige uke å redusere produksjonen fra oljefeltet Khafji, fremgår det av et internt notat Bloomberg har mottatt, og som er undertegnet av sjefen for driften av feltet, Abdullah Helal.

Khafji ligger i nøytral sone mellom de to landene, og produserer 300.000 fat olje pr dag. Nedstengningen skjer av miljømessige årsaker, opplyste en person med kjennskap til saken, overfor Bloomberg News fredag.

 - Det er generelt en risikovillig stemning. Det har ikke vært nevneverdige endringer i de fundamentale utsiktene i oljemarkedet. Nedgangstrenden er intakt, og enhver endring vi ser her, er av korrigerende art, sier Ric Spooner, sjefstrateg i CMC Markets i Sydney, til nyhetstjenesten.

Utvikling

Differansen mellom Brent og WTI er fra fredag morgen til mandag morgen redusert med rundt 40 cent, slik at Brent-premien mandag morgen er på 3,71 dollar per fat for kontrakter med samme forfallsmåned.

WTI 1. posisjon, som er novemberkontrakten, er på 83,17 dollar per fat mandag morgen, opp 42 cent fra forrige handledag, da kontrakten steg 5 cent til 82,75 dollar per fat. Da Oslo Børs stengte fredag, lå kontrakten på rundt 83,21 dollar fatet.

Brent 1. posisjon, som er desemberkontrakten, ligger på 86,18 dollar pr fat mandag morgen, opp 2 cent fra forrige handledag, da kontrakten sluttet opp 34 cent til 86,16 dollar per fat. Ved stengetid for Oslo Børs fredag, lå prisen på rundt 86,16 dollar pr fat.

Brent spot for umiddelbar levering noteres mandag morgen til 86,15 dollar per fat, opp 1 cent fra fredag kveld, da prisen falt 59 cent til 86,14 dollar per fat.

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Senterungdommen made Statoil baluba on Party meeting – ABC News

The Centre Party’s National Executive Committee had to be canceled when Senterungdommen would have resolutions that the group is committed to environmental and climate considerations.

GARDERMOEN (ABC NEWS) – Where Do We Go Now?

We need to take a break and discuss this, said meeting management under the Centre Party National Executive Committee Monday.

The problem was that the Centre Party youth leader Erling Laugsand suggested that Q will enter to determine in Statoil preamble that the company will perform in line with global environmental and climate considerations.

It happened during the discussion about the Centre Party policy in relation to the ownership of the economy, not least state ownership.

There have internal tensions in the long reigned about what the party should think about such as Statoil controversial oil sands in Canada. The ongoing also with relish under Party deputy Ola Borten Moe period of Petroleum and Energy.

Read The Center feels the impact – and to take sensitive oil sands debate

Ownership of climate upsets

suggestion came when the party’s industrial policy spokesman Geir Pollestad put forward suggestions as to what should be the Centre Party’s ownership policy.

“The Center believes that the state must act as a clearer owns both wholly and partly owned companies … State ownership is a tool to be used in climate and environmental policy. “according to the note Pollestad put forward for discussion.

– Does formulation that state ownership should be used in climate and environmental policy, that Q believes that state on the ownership side of Statoil should end its business with oil sands?

– I believes that at least we should be able to overarching guidelines, clear guidelines on what assessments the Board shall do. But micromanagement is not a good idea, says Geir Pollestad to ABC News.

– the same way that we should have strict requirements on corruption to Norwegian state-owned company set stricter standards than those stated in the country’s environmental policy says Pollestad.

He wanted Sp shall retain Statoil purpose as it is formulated today, something skeptics got removed at Monday meeting.

Read also: – Russia and China may buy up weapons factory in Kongsberg

Government investor paradox

After discussion it was agreed to draw Fellowships Sands proposal to be discussed later.

Party 2. Deputy Anne Beate Tvinnereim wish, however, stronger governance of companies like Statoil, to prevent the driver for example oil sands recovery.

– It is a paradox that the indirect shareholdings in Oil Fund draws us out of business, while we have a worse environmental management in directly owned company. It is also a paradox that state companies with their investments adds up to a wager that climate policy should not succeed, said Tvinnereim the debate.

– We should add up to guidelines also facing Statoil. We must have an aggressive attitude to how we should exercise ownership, she concluded.



Towards mixing politics and business

1. Deputy Ola Borten Moe is more reserved on the question of the state as the owner will come in and set too much.

– We have a public ownership that has been a success. It is by no means a foregone conclusion, he said.

– One of the reasons is that we have had a distinction between what is policy and what’s shop. We must have a neat relationship between the exercise ownership and to drive policy. The moment a politicize state ownership, ownership may be difficult to handle, says Borten Moe.

– why should we not sit in Parliament and have opinions about what Statoil, Stakraft, Hydro and Yara to do around the past, he said.



– State sales mean less competition

The memorandum of state ownership as Pollestad presented, going on to sell SAS, but keep the Airport Express on state hands. The party wants to increase the state’s dominance in DNB from 34 to 49 per cent.

In Telenor Sp up to 67 percent state ownership, the current 53.97.

suggestion that received broad support in the national executive committee meeting, will increase its stake in Hydro and Yara, and retain the 67 per cent of Statoil. It opposes the government’s decision to privatize the State’s properties.

– It is not a governmental task owning a small post in a Swedish airline. There is no reason why the state should own Mesta, a contracting company in line with others, argued Pollestad, which got some opposition:

Anne Beate Tvinnereim and Per Olaf Lundteigen want to keep SAS shares.

– Why should we sell us out in Mesta? asked Lundteigen.

– The contractor area there too little competition in Norway. A few companies control the market. They buy up Mesta, the competition becomes even smaller, says MP and farmer from Buskerud.

case is updated with it was agreed to postpone the processing of Fellowships Sands proposals

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- It is illegal to prohibit street music – Bergens Tidende

OnThursdaythecitycouncilinBergendiscussaproposaltobanstreetmusicTorgallminningen.

“BuskersarenotpermittedtoactonTorgallminningenand10metersintotheadjacentsidestreets,”accordingtoanotefromGreenEtat.

-Ifsuchathingisgoingthrough,itisveryserioustome.Thisisthemainincomemin.ThenitgoeswithoutsayingthatI’mworried,saidstreetmusicianRichAlexanderBTlastweek.

-Thisisveryseriousforme

BergenmunicipalitywillprohibitstreetmusicTorgallminningen.

Nowalsoreactslawyersandpoliticians.-TocleanseTorgallminningenforbuskersisillegal.Thepolicehavenoauthoritytoissuegeneralpenaltyrulesonperformanceofmusicincertainpublicplaces.ItseemsthatcouncilsandpolicehaveaplantosecuretheGypsyandjunkie-freestreetsbydrawingupmapsandprohibitgroupsstaythere,whichofcourseisnoauthorityinthePoliceActorotherwise,sayslawyerBengtWaldowtoBT.

-ThecitycouncilcannotgetovertheParliamentandthepoliceandIwonderhowGreenEtatplantoachieveit.ThequestionbelongsinParliament,headded.

CommissionerEilerMacodyLund(FRP)willnotcommentoninitiative.

-IneedtodiscussthiswithGreenEtatandcomebackwithananswer,hesaid.

RequiresCityCouncil-case

SondreBåtstrandintheGreenPartydemandsthatthematterbedealtwithbytheCityCouncil.

-Ifwearetohavestreetmusiciansinthemostcentralurbanspaceisanissueoffundamentalimportance,andthenthemattershallbeconsideredbythecity’stoppoliticalbody.It’saboutwhatexpressionsweletupinthepublicspace,saysBåtstrand.

-WewillofcoursediscussthisissueincitycouncilonThursday.Beyondthat,Ihavenocomment.We’llwaitandsee,sayscommissionerEilerMacodyLund.

Theproposalthatthecouncilnowwilldecide,accordingmunicipality”manyinquiriesfromthepublicregardingnoise.”

Insummersent”PeatAlmenbasisfromWell”,anassociationofhomeownersandbusinessesonTorgallmenning,acomplaint.

CompaniesSundt,fastfoodplacesMcDonald’sandDollyDimplesandmorehotelsareintheassociation.

-Personally,Ithinkatotalbanisgoingwellfar.Buttheregulationsmustbeinsisted.Ithasattimesbeentoomuchandtoopoorcontrolofthemusicthathasbeenthere,saysbusinessmanagerandcontactperson,ArneStoretvedt.

Thecitycouncilisthusagreesandhasdesignedamapofwhereitisnotallowedtoplay.TheareacoversmainlywholeTorgallmenning,fromSeamanMonumenttothebluestone,andpartsofthesidestreetsalong.



“Countlessinquiries”

Themusicisperceivedasannoyingforthosewhoarenear,saidcommissionerMacodyLundlastweek.

-Wehavereceivedcountlessinquiries,questionsandrequestsfrombusinessesandneighborstobanstreetmusicinthisarea.It’stiring,noisyandmakesitdifficultforthemtobethere,hesaid.

Buskerswillstillbeabletoplayanywhereelseinthecitycenterwithoutapplication.Onlythepolicecanexpelstreetmusicians,butGreenEtatalsowanttheopportunitytoaskthemtomove.



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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Right Twisted fog chat about rape – Aftenposten

Should rape laws used as an equality policy tool?

That question discusses lawyer Torstein Ulserød Aftenposten (18.11.14) and in a longer document that is prepared on behalf of the think tank Civita.

His answer is no. From a liberal view that government should be denominational (and that it therefore should not be engaged with advocacy efforts to combat rape), go Ulserød through drawbacks of a so-called consent legislation and analyze the ideological context that the proposal was tabled.

Error on legislation

Ulserød should have thanks to highlight a debate that the current government seems to have left lying in a drawer since they captured the government offices last year.

Yet I have several objections. The most serious is a reproduction of facts.

In Civitas memo alleges Ulserød that all unwanted sex covered by existing legislation, and that the Penal Code §200 can be used in cases of sexual intercourse without consent (p. 4).

It is wrong. It is not so sexual intercourse (which includes forced penetration or masturbation) alternatively punishable under this provision. According Ot. Proposition. 22 (2008-2009) covers the Penal Code §200 only “less serious” sexual action as unwanted fondling surface or under clothes.

The difference in sentencing framework between the two paragraphs is significant. Judged one under the Criminal Code §200 provides that a maximum of one year in prison, while the penalty for rape under the Criminal Code §192 carries a maximum of ten years.

As Ulserød not put into legislation in the field and otherwise not have empirical evidence for their statements, the road is short to dismiss the whole issue as principled and ideological.

To set gives it perhaps also meaning for him primarily to comment that the debate over amendment including has been justified by lovers raising potential, rather than going into the substance of the UN criticism of Norway legal treatment of rape.

Incorrect acquittals

In my work with the book Behind closed doors and in my fellowship, where I’m researching legal system treating rape cases, I have come across several examples of prosecutions of involuntary sexual intercourse that have ended in acquittal.

In some, but far from all, applies that subjective fault requirement could not be proved, because the court operated with an old-fashioned understanding that woman bear the main responsibility for opposing sexual intercourse.

acquittal does not seem to concern that found direct evidence that the victim lied.

Ministry of Justice requested the consultation document on concrete examples of so-called “residual categories» who might not be prosecuted with the current wording as a starting point. In STKS submission politicians received such examples from the period 2010-2011 and new research on screening mechanisms in criminal justice is underway.

Parliament and government are doing here is wise to listen to the scientists before they draw hasty conclusions in either the other direction.

Critics fear that the legal standard of proof will be lowered, that everyone in principle can report someone for rape and be judged for it, or that “angresex” now being included in the legislation, if the change direction of emphasizing voluntariness or consent.

acquittal terms, however, not cases where a woman has had half bad sex that she regrets the day after, or where a person has gone to police without more than a loose assertion that she has had unwanted sex. With today’s evidentiary requirements can or should such events course not judged as rape.

In the appropriate acquittal cases have been exercised coercion that court by one reason or another do not define violence; alternatively believed the court that plaintiff was not drunk enough to qualify to have been unconscious in a legal sense, or that she had not contributed enough resistance.

These acquittals is, in my view, not adopted according to the legislator’s intention that sex should be voluntary.



Opponent of consent regulation

Although I am an opponent of consent regulation, but for entirely different reasons than Ulserød.

My prejudice is based on an analysis which is reproduced in Centre for interdisciplinary gender research submission to the Ministry of Justice consent provision.

My – and STKS – view is that the main improvements of the legal system treating rape cases is in practice, not legal text.

We do not mean that rape provision ‘increasingly be expanded “so Ulserød alleges that followers of amended legislation wishes.

A legislative amendment must clarify the existing one. There must be a better correlation between legislators’ intentions as expressed in the legislative history and the wording.

Of the preparatory work states that sex should be voluntary and that it is not a requirement that the victim should have sat physically or verbally resisted (Ot. Prp. 22, 2008-2009). Therefore, all references to the victim’s resistance omitted §192b and in addition should the word “coercion” is defined and added to §192a (click here to see the current legal text).

Furthermore, acquittals as well as convictions, subject to justification duty in jury cases, so that the public, victims and convicted persons have full access. The principle of verifiability and transparency must be ensured better, not least considering that people convicted of rape to know which interpretations of the law and evidence based.



tendentious use of research

Torstein Ulserød act tendentiously and fraudulent in their dealings with rendering research on violence and rape field.

Most worrisome is the claim of note that “we know a great deal about who the men who commit rape.” Please refer to the characteristics of convicted offenders, who rightly often convicted of another crime, the psychiatric diagnoses and are socially and economically marginalized.

However, only approximately 10 percent of all rapes are reported, and a tiny part ends with conviction. According to a recently scope examination of NKVTS talking about 2 percent of their respondents.

To generalize from the small population of convicts to the larger proportion of offenders in the population does not keep scientific and methodological objectives.

The reality is that we know too little about what characterizes the vast majority of Norwegian predators that are never in contact with the justice sector.

From American research we know that some young men in college account for a large part of the rapes, and that many of these are serial offenders. The question of whether this may apply in a Norwegian context, are currently open.



Rape is complex

With Kjetil Rolness (who is known for his deep ideological opposition to feminism) as a witness alleges Ulserød further states that “the official Norway has only one explanation for rape: Lack of equality and bad attitudes.”

This is wrong. It is a thorough, interdisciplinary work as a basis for research reports and Norwegian public reports about domestic violence and rape, which lays the foundation for official policy on violence and rape field.

The work is partly penned by sober social scientists, who see gender power as one of several dimensions that must be considered, as well as lawyers who openly admits the obvious limitations using legal strategies on social issues.

Some research on violence in Norway is conducted organized by the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies. In a knowledge status from 2013 beats center states that rape must be understood as a fine mesh of complex problems that can not be reduced to one-to-one ratio.

Many factors and mechanisms – including bad attitudes – must work together that someone commits rape.

Gender Neutral violence?

There is little to suggest that Ulserød have read the available violence and rape research. This applies especially to research on maternal violence against children, research he Civita-note otherwise refers to to show that women are equally violent as men, if not more.

This study concludes namely not unambiguously that women turn their kids more than men or that this should be understood as an individual action regardless of gender – on the contrary.

The survey states that mothers are responsible for a significant proportion of what in research terminology calls it “less serious” violence against children.

Men are still overrepresented in the gravest violence cases in close relationships, without the reason should trivialize the violence women stand for.

As with rape, must violence against children and partner violence is analyzed as a complex phenomenon. It does not Ulserød. His concern is rather to use the individual-oriented deviates explanation for violence to define away the gender dimension, and – in good liberal spirit – thus also the community as a partial cause and solution to the problem.



Theoretical polemics

Ulserød ending a long theoretical polemic against Amnesty International, radical feminists and Discrimination Ombud with the assertion that “a bourgeois government must put the interests of legal protection of citizens in front of a possible need to send equality policy signals. “

Here commits Ulserød a fundamental error in its analysis and thus their conclusions.

For it is not only an bourgeois Government undertakes to put right the safety of consideration of equality; the responsibility rests with any Government, regardless of party political color.

It knew the previous government very well.

The question of introducing consent Norwegian Law was first discussed by Sexual Offences Commission in 1997. Stoltenberg government has had two government periods to introduce provision if they wanted. When they have not done it, it is precisely because they have heard in consultative bodies skepticism or have not drawn hasty conclusions without empirical evidence.



A question about the rule of law

To reduce the issue of stable high dismissal rates – approximately 84 percent – and stable, low conviction rates – approximately every third or fourth case ends in acquittal – to politically tug on principles, is in my view not debate worthy.

Ulserød reduces an important debate on the rule of law for victims of sexual violence to be theoretically and ideologically, and coater not their conclusions with empirical data. From there is also a short way to write it all as a hypothetical problem.

But there are quite real part matters that do not provide women and men legal protection against abuse that they are entitled to by Norwegian law and international human rights conventions.

The ongoing rape debate is as much about justice and right confidence on equality. It affects real people and their issues do not deserve to be simplified in Civitas general resistance against Discrimination Ombud or feminist gender power theory.

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- The control like a drunken sailor – Dagens Næringsliv

Statoil

Etter at Statoil fredag tok et tap på 2,4 milliarder kroner på en riggkansellering, ringte aksjeanalytiker John A. Olaisen til selskapet for å høre hva det driver med.

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Statoil har hatt store forhåpninger til boring i såkalt presalt på dypt vann i Angola, og leide i fjor likegodt inn det svære boreskipet «Stena Carron» i tre og et halvt år på en dagrate på hele 612.000 dollar.

Nå, etter to tørre brønner og oljeprisfall, har selskapet fått kalde føtter. I går kansellerte Statoil likegodt hele den gjenværende delen av kontrakten, to og et halvt år. Det koster selskapet 350 millioner dollar – nær 2,4 milliarder kroner.

Ringte og spurte

- Det er helt vilt, sier aksjeanalytiker John A. Olaisen i ABG Sundal Collier.

Han mener det er oppsiktsvekkende at et selskap hyrer inn en rigg for tre og et halvt år i et brennhett marked tilsynelatende uten å ha klare planer for hva den skulle brukes til. Derfor ringte han i går til Statoils investorkontakt. 

- Jeg måtte ringe og spørre hva de egentlig hadde tenkt å bruke riggen til, sier Olaisen.

Svaret var at Statoil hadde håpet på suksess i Angola og at det skulle bety flere lete- og avgrensningsbrønner. I et notat skriver Olaisen at

Statoil i effekt gjorde hele bestillingen på spekulasjon. Han spør om selskapet nå kutter i «komplett panikk».

- Det er mangel på kapitaldisiplin. Først tar de inn en rigg på langtidskontrakt når markedet er som hetest, så tar de den ut når det ser som svartest ut. Det er styring som en full sjømann.



John A. Olaisen, analytiker i ABG Sundal Collier.

 

Vanskelig å snu seg

Statoil-talsmann Knut Rostad forsvarer kanselleringen.

- Riggmarkedet har endret seg, og det har vist seg vanskelig å leie riggen videre til andre operatører. Etter en helhetsvurdering var kansellering det beste alternativet, sier han.

Fortsatt må Statoil likevel være med på flere dyre brønner i Angola.

-Vi har forpliktet oss til åtte brønner i fem blokker, to av dem opereres av Statoil, og er nå gjennomført. I tillegg er to andre brønner ferdige og en pågår. Det betyr at tre gjenstår. Operatørene Total og Repsol må svare for fremdriften av disse.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Express Investigated – Namdalsavisa

NAMSOS: – The current tender for the operation of fast ferry valid until the end of 2017. It is natural to consider the future provision in this regard, said function manager for communications, Terje Skrattalsrud.

Transport Administration has prepared an internal memorandum on fast communications Leka-Rørvik-Namsos.

The County Council has not yet taken a position on this.



– Natural review

County Council for Transport, Tor Erik Jensen, is however clear that the county council will go through fast communications since the tender expires in 31 December 2017.

According to the agreement the possibility of a two-year contract extension that took effect from 1 January 2010.

– It is natural to take a thorough review on the offer. If there are better option than the current, is impossible to predict now, says Jensen.

There are FosenNamsos Marine AS, which operates the route on behalf of the county.

The county spends about 20 million on offer. As in other areas considered costs relative to the benefits of the offer.



Fewer travelers

There are fewer traveling with Foldafjord since the boat was adopted in 2010.

In 2012, a total of 34,277 passengers. In 2013 the number was reduced to 31 806 passengers, ie a decrease of 7.2 percent. The reduction was greatest in November and December with 19 percent fewer travelers.

The decline continued in 2014 – with 15,976 passengers from 16,342 passengers in the first half of 2013.

Today’s traffic, however slight against the good years after new Namdalingen was adopted.

The top year was 2003 all over 48,607 passengers. When NA discussed developments in an article in 2008, 2005 was described as a trough year with “only” 43,729 that solved ticket.



From sea to land

Transport Administration follows the development happens.

– We see a clear transfer of traffic from sea to land. this has been a clear trend since 2007, says adviser Day Ystad.

They are prepared to go into detail on this in connection with the tender period expires.

– Can it be necessary to replace speedboat with other public transport?

– That I can not answer, but it is natural to look at what options may be available.

Anyway, there will be a thorough and transparent process before taking a position on something. The relevant authorities will be involved in this, says Ystad.

It was a comprehensive process for making decisions about the purchase of new speedboat and the signing of the contract was made.

Fuel consumption and CO2 emissions would be reduced, including reduced speed.

– In retrospect, we see that the reports and decisions about Foldafjord stand strongly believes Ystad.

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- It is unlawful to prohibit street music – Bergens Tidende

OnThursdaycitycouncilinBergentreataproposaltobanstreetmusicTorgallmenningen.

“BuskersarenotallowedtoactonTorgallmenningenand10metersintotheadjacentsidestreets,”accordingtoanotefromGreenEtat.

-Ifsuchathinggoesthrough,itisveryseriousforme.Thisisthemainincomemin.ItgoeswithoutsayingthatI’mworried,saidstreetmusicianRichAlexandertoBTlastweek.

-Thisisveryseriousforme

BergenmunicipalitywillforbidstreetmusicTorgallmenningen.

nowalsorespondslawyersandpoliticians.-TocleanTorgallmenningenforstreetmusiciansisillegal.Thepolicehavenoauthoritytoissuegeneralpenaltyrulesonperformanceofmusicincertainpublicplaces.ItseemsthatcouncilsandpolicehaveaplantosecuretheGypsyandjunkie-freestreetsbydrawingupmapsandprohibitgroupsstaythere,whichofcourseisnoauthorityinthePoliceActorotherwise,sayslawyerBengtWaldowtoBT.

-ThecitycouncilcannotgetovertheParliamentandthepoliceandIwonderhowGreenEtatplantoachieveit.ThequestionbelongsinParliament,headded.

CommissionerEilerMacodyLund(FRP)willnotcommentoninitiative.

-IneedtodiscussthiswithGreenEtatandcomebackwithananswer,hesaid.

RequiresCityCouncil-case

SondreBåtstrandintheGreenPartydemandsthatthematterbedealtwithbytheCityCouncil.

-Ifwearetohavestreetmusiciansinthemostcentralurbanspaceisanissueoffundamentalimportance,andthenthemattershallbeconsideredbythecity’stoppoliticalbody.It’saboutwhatexpressionsweletoutinpublic,saysBåtstrand.

-WewillofcoursediscussthisissueincitycouncilThursday.Beyondthat,Ihavenocomment.We’llhavetowaitandsee,sayscommissionerEilerMacodyLund.

Thebackgroundfortheproposalthatthecouncilwillnowdecide,accordingmunicipality”manyinquiriesfromthepublicregardingnoise.”

summersent”PeatAlmenbasisfromWell”,anassociationofhomeownersandbusinessesinTorgallmenningen,acomplaint.

CompaniesSundt,fastfoodplacesMcDonald’sandDollyDimplesandmorehotelsareintheunion.

-Personally,Ithinkatotalbanisgoingwellfar.However,theregulationsmustbeinsisted.Ithasattimesbeentoomuchandtoopoorcontrolofthemusicthathasbeenthere,saysbusinessmanagerandcontactperson,ArneStoretvedt.

TheCityCouncilisthereforeagreesandhasdesignedamapofwhereitisnotallowedtoplay.TheareacoversessentiallytheentireTorgallmenningen,fromSeaman’sMonumenttothebluestone,andpartsofthesidestreetsalong.



“Numerousinquiries”

Themusicisexperiencedasunpleasantforthosewhoarenear,saidcommissionerMacodyLundlastweek.

-Wehavereceivednumerousinquiries,questionsandrequestsfrombusinessesandneighborstobanstreetmusicinthisarea.It’stiring,noisyandmakesitdifficultforthemtobethere,hesaid.

Buskerswillstillbeabletoplayanywhereelseinthecitycenterwithoutapplication.Onlythepolicecanexpelstreetmusicians,butGreenEtatalsowanttheopportunitytoaskthemtomove.



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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Sætre can be reception centers – or apartment complex – Hamar Dagblad


 It is the chief administrative officer who has been commissioned to assess the potential for re-use of Sætre retirement and nursing homes, which are proposed closed.

 Råmann has issued a note, which must be seen as an IDEA LIST and which will form the basis for the further political process. It is also assumed that the options will be further explored.

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  Below you can see the chief officer’s options and excerpts from the tanks around the individual.

  1. Rental homes / apartments

  It is not considered appropriate for Elverum municipality to retain the building for this purpose when the market is uncertain with respect to need. In addition, the municipality owns five apartments in Nordtun condominium, located in SØRSKOGBYGDA center. You can experience it challenging to get the tenants, as many of their user needs to indicate desire for proximity to the city center. If this option is to be realized so warrant sale to private actors.

  2. Reception center

  It is possible to imagine that the buildings at Sætre will function as a reception center. A reception center, however, considered to be a purpose for which it is uncertainty with respect to the duration of such an operation – ref. what at any time UDI needs. It therefore considered not as a long-term expedient that the municipality undertake such a responsibility, but that option implies sales to private driver / operator.

  3. Child Welfare Institution

  A private company has recently made application to the council to clarify whether the municipality has available space to accommodate a child care institution. There are plans for a child protection project, which also included psychiatric treatment. The buildings on Sætre considered, however, to be disproportionate in relation to that purpose alone. Sale or rental of parts of the building should be considered for this option.

  4. Labour and activity center

  In connection with the project “Continuous improvement in Elverum municipality” is drawn up proposals to coordinate services to different user groups across sectors, culture, family and health and pleieog omsorg.Ved establishing these services in a coordinated employment and activity center in Sætre will transport needs increase, but at the same time considered the solution to provide significant opportunities for improved and increased service to others.

  5. Minors refugees

  parts of the building may be appropriate to consider in relation to the keeping of residence and activity for unaccompanied minor refugees – ref. also possible samordningmed measures proposed under item 4.

  See video of torchlight for Sætre:

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- Not dangerous to ride Oppdølsstranda – Drive

The risk is newly registered in Sunnyvale municipality list.

As mentioned earlier in the drive, there has been a request from several sources to facilitate pedestrians and cyclists through the new Oppdølsstrandtunnelen. Today, the tunnel is closed for feather road. Ramboll concluded in the report that the special arrangements in the form of cross expansion or separate bicycle tunnel will not be economically viable. The report shows that one either be offered taxi for all riders through the tunnel. This is estimated to amount to around 700,000 per year. As will be considerably cheaper than the investment cost of additional tunnel profile. “Even though such consideration is not a realistic option, it helps to put the benefits and costs in perspective.”

In the note appears however that the probability that a cyclist will perish as a result of landslides along the old road through the beach is very small.

“Basically, we thus believe that cyclists should be able to use existing roads rather than using tunnels”, it says in conclusion.

Ramboll points out that the existing road will eventually have poorer accessibility in line with the maintenance ends.

“Nevertheless, we believe that for many years will be able to pick up on this stretch with substantially lower risk than previously since the traffic is gone.”

As previously discussed in the driver’s NPRA started with a work that will result in an overall strategy for the tunnels that open for cyclists and which must be closed. Today, 18 of the total of just over 90 tunnels in the county closed to pedestrians and cyclists. Among them is the 7.5 km long Oppdølsstrandtunnelen. The nearly 6 km long Øksendal tunnel and the 2.3 km long Skrøotunnelen, however – perhaps surprisingly for some – not closed to pedestrians and cyclists. However, for both of these it is also possible to cycle the old road around.

Read the full consultant’s report here.

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Senterungdommen made Statoil baluba at Q-meeting – ABC News

The Centre Party’s National Executive Committee had to be canceled when Senterungdommen would have resolutions that the group is committed to environmental and climate considerations.

GARDERMOEN (ABC NEWS) – Where Do We Go Now?

We need to take a break and discuss it, said meeting management under the Centre Party’s National Executive Committee Monday.

The problem was that the Centre Party youth leader Erling Laugsand suggested that Sp will enter to determine the group’s mission statement that the company will perform in line with global environmental and climate concerns.

It happened during the discussion of the Centre Party policy in relation to the ownership of the business, especially state ownership.

There have internal stresses in long reigned about what the party should think about such as Statoil’s controversial oil sands in Canada. It was going well with relish under Sp-deputy Ola Borten Moe period of Petroleum and Energy.

Read: The Center feels the impact – and to take sensitive oil sands debate

Ownership of the climatic difficulties

suggestion came when the party’s industrial policy spokesman Geir Pollestad put forward proposals for what should be the Centre Party’s ownership policy.

“The Center believes that the state must act as a clearer own both wholly and partly owned companies … State ownership is a tool to be used in climate and environmental policy. “, says the note Pollestad presented for discussion.

– Does the wording of that state ownership is to be used in climate and environmental policy, the Party, the state of the ownership side of Statoil should end its business with oil sands?

– I believe that we certainly should be able to level guidelines, clear guidelines on what assessments the Board to do. But micromanagement is not a good idea, says Geir Pollestad to ABC News.

– Just as we should have strict requirements on corruption, the Norwegian state-owned company set stricter standards than those stated in the country’s environmental policy says Pollestad.

See also: – Russia and China may buy up weapons factory in Kongsberg

State’s investor-paradox

After discussion it was agreed to draw Fellowship Sands proposal to be discussed later.

Party 2. Deputy Anne Beathe Tvinnereim want to be stronger corporate governance of companies Statoil, to prevent the driver such as oil sands.

– It is a paradox that the indirect ownership in Oil Fund draws us out of business, while we have a worse environmental management in directly owned company. There is also a paradox that state companies with their investment adds up to a wager that climate policy should not succeed, said Tvinnereim the debate.

– We should add up to the guidelines also to Statoil. We must have a proactive approach to how to exercise ownership, she concluded.



Towards mixing politics and business

1. Deputy Ola Borten Moe is more reserved on the question of the state as the owner will come in and set too much.

– We have a public ownership that has been a success. It is by no means a matter of course, he said.

– One of the reasons is that we have had a distinction between what is policy and what’s shop. We must have a neat relationship between the exercise ownership and to drive policy. The moment a politicize state ownership, ownership may be difficult to handle, think Borten Moe.

– why should we not sit in Parliament and have opinions about what Statoil, Stakraft, Hydro and Yara to do around the past, he said.



– State sales mean less competition

The memorandum of state ownership as Pollestad presented, going on to sell SAS, but keep the Airport Express on state hands. The party wants to increase the state’s dominance in DNB from 34 to 49 per cent.

In Telenor Sp up to 67 percent state ownership, the current 53.97.

suggestion that received broad support in the national executive committee meeting, will increase its stake in Hydro and Yara, and retain the 67 per cent of Statoil. It opposes the government’s decision to privatize the State’s properties.

– It is not a government job owning a small post in a Swedish airline. There is no reason why the state should own Mesta, a construction company in line with others, argued Pollestad, who received no opposition:

Anne Beathe Tvinnereim and Per Olaf Lundteigen want to keep SAS shares.

– Why should we sell ourselves out in Mesta? asked Lundteigen.

– The contractor area is far too little competition in Norway. A few companies control the market. Buying the up Mesta, the competition becomes even less, says MP and farmer from the county.

The case is updated with that it was agreed to defer consideration of Fellowship Sands suggestions

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