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Yara and BASF open world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Texas
Category: Chemicals / Metals
Yara International ASA and BASF today celebrated the opening of a new world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Texas, USA. The $600-million, state-of-the-art facility uses a cost-efficient and sustainable production process, based on by-product hydrogen instead of natural gas. Yara Freeport LLC is owned 68 percent by Yara and 32 percent by BASF. The plant, located at BASF’s […]
Source: Globe Newswire
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All Time Record Quarter for Norwegian Cod
Category: Seafood
Norway exported 676,000 tonnes of seafood with a value of NOK 23.7 billion in the first quarter. This is a volume decline of 8 per cent and a decline of 2 per cent or NOK 488 million compared with the first quarter last year. “This is the best quarter for cod ever, with a total […]
Source: Seafood.no
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Stavanger Roundtable: Energy Market Regulation & Innovation – New York & Stavanger in Transition
Category: AmCham Norway
“The big danger in incentivizing [renewable] energy market development is that government money can become the market.” So stated New York state’s visiting “energy czar” during an illuminating recent roundtable discussion with senior Stavanger-region leaders. Prior to his role as Chairman of Energy & Finance for New York, Richard Kauffman worked in energy and finance […]
Source: Amcham
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Norway plans to buy electric planes, mimicking green car success
Category: Airline / Travel
Norway said on Thursday it wants to buy electric passenger planes in the coming years to help slow climate change, building on its success with big tax breaks that have made it the world leader in electric car sales. State firm Avinor, which runs 45 airports in Norway, said the commitment to battery-powered aircraft could […]
Source: Reuters
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Google-skatt kan ramme norsk IT-næring
Category: Government
Det er meningsløst å lokke til seg IT-gigantene med den ene hånden, og deretter kakke dem i hodet med uforutsigbare særskatter med den andre, skriver Kjetil Thorvik Brun i denne kommentaren. Miljøpartiet De Grønne har fremmet et forslag om å utrede egne skatteregler for IT-giganter som Google, Apple, Amazon og Facebook. Mange har kritisert selskapene […]
Source: Abelia
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