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March 29, 2021 You are here: Home / Europe / Norway Says ‘No Way’: Norwegian Government Faces Furious Backlash Against Industrial Wind Power Norway Says ‘No Way’: Norwegian Government Faces Furious Backlash Against Industrial Wind Power Pollster’s claims about everyone being in favour of wind power hit a brick wall just as soon as wind turbines get speared into their backyards. Funny about that. Delivering a grinding, thumping, pulsing cacophony of low-frequency noise; destroying bog lands, waterways and poisoning underground water supplies; throwing 15 tonne blades to the four win...

Wind farm backlash grows in oil-rich Norway Lars Erik Taraldsen, Lars Paulsson and Jesper Starn, Bloomberg Dec. 13, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Tina Bru, Norway's petroleum and energy minister, returns to her seat after speaking at the Sparebank 1 Markets Energy Conference in Oslo, Norway, on Feb. 26, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Odin Jaeger. After being harassed on social media and told repeatedly that she's a traitor who should be in jail, Norway's 34-year-old energy minister is bracing for a controversial election campaign. In the country that has amassed a trillion-dollar fortune built on the r...

While the cost of wind power is falling, a growing number of voters want to see less of it. They’d rather see alternatives like more hydro or even fossil fuels -- which would clash with the government’s environmental goals. A survey in November showed that only 36% were favorable about onshore wind as an energy source, down from as much as 84% in 2011. Oil’s popularity has increased to 29% from just 16% five years ago, according to Kantar’s Climate Barometer, which polled 2,085 people. DUPLICATE