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Norway library nonfiction/AV additions
Advertiser Democrat - Maine
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August 27, 2025
Biography: Andrés, José– Change the Recipe: Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs Barry, Dave – Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up Carter, Graydon – When the Going...
TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell announce first CO2 transported from cement manufacturing area to subsea storage
Chemical Engineering
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August 27, 2025
August 27, 2025 | By Scott Jenkins TotalEnergies (Paris, France; www.totalenergies.com) and its partners, Equinor (Stavanger, Norway; www.equinor.com) and Shell (London, U.K.; www.shell.com), announce that the first CO2 volumes were successfully...
Ofgem energy price cap rise should be fatal blow to Ed Miliband's Net Zero dream
Daily Express
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August 27, 2025
Ofgem is set to announce the energy price cap for millions of households with prices set to rise by 2% this year – meaning yet another winter of high energy bills. The increase is slightly more than analysts expected, meaning a family using a...
Increased Opec production cause for optimism says Hafnia
Lloyd's List
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August 27, 2025
HAFNIA recorded a profit of $75.3m in the second quarter of 2025, which while well down on 2024’s $259.2m, still represents a strong result for the Oslo- and New York-listed clean product specialist. Chief executive Mikael Skov said Opec...
MCCARTHY: Trump’s industrial policy is realism, not socialism
Daily Herald, Sanpete County - Utah
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Some conservatives are up in arms about Trump’s decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel. That’s state ownership of the means of production, isn’t it? Classic, textbook socialism. “If there is anyone who was a halfway prominent...
Latvia and Norway team up for innovative pole inspection process
LSM
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August 27, 2025
This solution will automate the pole inspection process, reducing electricity grid maintenance costs in the long term. With a total budget of €1.96 million, the project is being implemented within the European partnership Innovative SMEs activity...
Intel Deal: Trump’s Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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August 27, 2025
Is it Comrade President now? Some conservatives are up in arms about President Donald Trump’s decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel. That’s state ownership of the means of production, isn’t it? Classic, textbook socialism. “If there...
Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Drops Israeli Banks, Caterpillar
MENAFN
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August 27, 2025
(MENAFN) In a recent move, the world’s most prominent sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, revealed on Monday that it has eliminated five Israeli financial institutions and the American construction equipment manufacturer,...
Energy price cap: The changing face of your bill as poverty and climate demands grow
Heart Radio
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27 August 2025, 07:55 | Updated: 27 August 2025, 10:04 The small increase in domestic energy bills announced today confirms that prices have stabilised since the ruinous spikes that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but remain 40% higher than...
Explainer-What you need to know about Norway's upcoming election
The Straits Times
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August 27, 2025
OSLO - Norway's general election on September 7-8 is expected to be a close race between a centre-left bloc led by the incumbent Labour Party, and a centre-right bloc dominated by the populist Progress Party and centre-right Conservatives. Among...
Chinese energy projects take off in Indonesia as western financing falters
China Dialogue Ocean
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August 27, 2025
To help Indonesia shift away from coal, an international group of western countries, along with Japan, launched the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in 2022. Their pledge totalled USD 20 billion in grants, soft loans and private finance....
Daniel McCarthy: Trump’s industrial policy is realism, not socialism
The Dispatch - Mississippi
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August 27, 2025
Is it Comrade President now? Some conservatives are up in arms about Trump’s decision to have the government buy a stake in Intel. That’s state ownership of the means of production, isn’t it? Classic, textbook socialism. “If there is anyone who...
How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People
Literary Hub
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August 27, 2025
“Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” –Amílcar Cabral, Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories * Article continues after advertisement From the foundational moment of...
Prices for Europe Gas are little changed due to low demand and Norwegian gas outages
World Energy News - Connecticut
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The Dutch and British wholesale prices of gas were not much different early Wednesday, as wind power production limited demand and offset lower supplies from Norway. LSEG data shows that the benchmark Dutch front-month contract was 33.17 euros per...
OKEA Discovers More Oil in Brage Field offshore Norway
Rigzone
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August 27, 2025
OKEA ASA said it has found more commercial quantities of petroleum in the already producing Brage field on Norway’s side of the North Sea. The Talisker exploration well yielded preliminary estimated gross recoverable resources of 16-33 million...
Despite Everything, US Solar Manufacturing Continues to Power Up
Inside Climate News
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August 27, 2025
Companies that make solar power components in the United States are still positioned to benefit from tax policy and tariffs, despite the Trump administration’s aversion to renewable energy. Some big manufacturers, such as First Solar and Hanwha...
How to reduce global warming? World’s first commercial carbon capture facility begins storing CO₂ in Norwegian North Sea
The Economic Times
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August 27, 2025
The world’s first commercial carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility is now operational, marking a significant milestone in Europe’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Northern Lights project has successfully injected and stored its...
Hochschild cuts FY production guidance, JD Sports LFL sales fall in H1
ShareCast
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STOCKS TO WATCH Sports fashion retailer JD Sports said on Wednesday that it expects FY26 pre-tax profits to meet current market expectations despite seeing group sales fall in the six months ended 2 August. JD Sports said H1 group sales were down...
Orlen increases gas production in Norway
CEENERGYNEWS
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August 27, 2025
Orlen Upstream Norway, together with its partners, has completed the third phase of development of the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea. The Polish company expects its share of gas from Ormen Lange to increase by approximately 0.5 billion...
England Women’s Soccer Manager Joins RTS Cambridge Lineup; First Look At ‘The Engineer’; Norway’s TV2 Makes ‘Great School Swap’; CIISA Names “Trailblazers”; BritBox Buys ‘The Hardacres’ – Global Briefs
Deadline
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August 27, 2025
England Women’s Soccer Manager Joins RTS Cambridge Lineup England women’s soccer manager Sarina Wiegman will chat with YouTube’s boss in the UK at next month’s RTS Cambridge Convention. The convention has rounded out lineup with Wiegman, who has...