EXPLAINED: Norway opens up protected rivers to power plants

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EXPLAINED: Norway opens up protected rivers to power plants

Conservationists are in uproar after Norway's parliament voted by a large majority to open up the country's 390 protected rivers to power plants. What has actually happened and what will it mean?

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With this decision, Norway's protected waterways lost their real protection.

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(+) Opens up for power development in protected waterways

A broad majority in the Storting voted in favor of the controversial proposal that allows power plants to be built in protected watercourses under certain conditions.

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Opens for power development in protected waterways

– The last word has not been said, the environmental movement rages after the Storting opened the way for protected waterways to be developed. The decision is being called unwise and hostile to nature.

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Opens for power development

The Storting decided on Thursday that protected waterways can be expanded.