On Wednesday, the Norwegian government asked an appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling that said that the approval of three oilfields offshore Norway was unlawful as the assessment did not consider the environmental impact of the petroleum from these fields. Early this year, the Oslo District Court ruled that the government’s approval of three new oil and gas fields, Breidablikk, Yggdrasil, and Tyrving, all in the North Sea, was invalid as it failed to take into account the emissions from burning the petroleum…
