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29 January 2021 Expedition cruise line Hurtigruten has launched its Dover 2022/23 season, extending its existing programme to include nine new itineraries taking explorers to Norway to experience the Norwegian coastline and the Fjords. Sailings will take place throughout the year offering guests the chance to chase the midnight sun and witness the Aurora Borealis. The ten–21-night itineraries will see guests travel onboard the refurbished MS Maud to destinations such as the world famous Nor...

Odfjell Drilling will retrofit its newest deepwater, semi-submersible drilling rigs in the North Sea’s Norwegian sector with the Siemens Energy BlueDrive DC-Grid system. The solution consists of DC/DC converters connected to the existing four drilling drive DC buses from one side and to DC/DC converters connected to energy-storage systems. This allows platform operators to conduct peak shaving of drilling loads, so fewer generator sets can run at higher and steadier loads — reducing fuel c...

The Sámi on Camera Photographs of the Sámi taken in the 19th and 20th centuries act as ‘emotional archives’, offering an alternative history of Europe’s longest surviving indigenous people.   Skolt Sámi man in Sevettijärvi, Inari municipality, Finland. Photograph by Ernest Dixon, 1950s. Courtesy of the Sámi Museum Siida, Finland. At the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers ventured into northern Scandinavia, becoming the region�...

SLEIGH RIDE PROPELLED BY 306 HORSEPOWER THROUGH LAPLAND IN THE MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS CLUBMAN SLEIGH RIDE PROPELLED BY 306 HORSEPOWER THROUGH LAPLAND IN THE MINI JOHN COOPER WORKS CLUBMAN There must be something about the training conditions of their Finnish homeland to have spawned two of the best drivers who ever took the wheel on the rally tracks of this world. Timo Mäkinen and Rauno Aaltonen from Finland acquired the sensitive touch in their hands and feet driving on deserted roads throug...

April 16, 2021 You are here: Home / Animals / Sámi Sue: Reindeer Herders Fighting For Existence Against Norway’s Wind Industry Sámi Sue: Reindeer Herders Fighting For Existence Against Norway’s Wind Industry The only way for communities to beat wind power outfits is to get organised and fight, like fury. Knowing the tricks of your opponent’s subsidy-fuelled trade helps, too. Which is the very reason for this site. The first insight to grasp is the wind industry is not there to help you...

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Last modified on Wed 20 Jan 2021 03.36 EST Indigenous reindeer herders are bringing a legal action against a proposed wind power project that would be one of the largest in Norway. The Sámi herders from Nordland county are accusing the Øyfjellet windfarm constructors of breaking licensing agreements which stipulated that construction would not interfere with reindeer migration paths. This is not the first such lawsuit in Norway. In the past five years Sámi communities have begun legal ...

Born on June 24, 1925, to John and Sarah Gordon, Ian grew up in Chorlton-cum-Hardy Manchester. He attended Chorlton Municipal Grammar School for Boys who were briefly evacuated as a whole school at the start of the war, before leaving at 16 to start work as a copy boy at the Daily Telegraph in Manchester. He then became a junior reporter for The Manchester City News, beginning a career in journalism spanning almost 50 years. He received his calling up papers as his 18th birthday approac...

The company already owns and operates a Canadian iron ore mine. 5:58 pm, Jan. 14, 2021 × A Grand Rapids-based mining company has bought its second foreign iron ore mine. Tacora Resources announced Thursday it had completed the acquisition of Sydvaranger Mining AS, an iron ore mine and processing plant in Sor-Varanger, Norway, that has not operated since 2015. The purchase price was not disclosed, but was paid for in the form of shares in Tacora, the company said in a news release. "W...

Share this article Share this article GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tacora Resources Inc. ("Tacora" or the "Company") today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Sydvaranger Mining AS and its subsidiaries ("Sydvaranger"), an iron ore mine and processing plant located in Sør-Varanger, Norway.  The acquisition of Sydvaranger provides Tacora with a 4 million tonne per year shovel-ready expansion opportunity and geographical diversification in a tier 1 jurisdic...