Environmental groups said on Thursday they were demanding an immediate halt to the ongoing development of three Norwegian offshore oilfields, seeking a court injunction against the government.
"Their recent approvals violate the Norwegian constitution and Norway's international human rights commitments, as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child," the two environmental groups said in a statement.
"Still, it's the right of environmental organisations to try this before the court," State Secretary Andreas Bjelland Eriksen said in a statement to Reuters.Norway is western Europe's largest oil producing nation and the biggest supplier of natural gas to Europe, and the government says its petroleum resources are vital to the continent's energy security.
The global impact assessments for Yggdrasil, Tyrving and Breidablikk were "either non-existent or highly inadequate, rendering the approvals invalid", Greenpeace and Nature and Youth said on Thursday.
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