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A Norwegian appeals court ruled yesterday that three offshore oilfield development permits issued by the government were invalid due to a lack of environmental consideration, but gave the state six months to rectify shortcomings.
Production from the fields would meanwhile be allowed to continue, the court said. The case was brought by environmental campaigners hoping to block the development of Norway’s oil and gas industry.
Environmentalists argued that the government had failed to assess the environmental impact from the use of the fields’ oil and gas, known as Scope 3 emissions.
“The Court of Appeal believes that the climate impacts from combustion emissions have neither been sufficiently investigated nor assessed,” the Borgarting court said in a statement, adding that the permits did not meet procedural requirements.
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