OSLO (Reuters) – A Norwegian appeals court said on Monday it had ruled in favour of the government in a case brought by environmental activists seeking a temporary injunction against the development of three oil and gas fields.
The government in September asked the appeals court to lift injunctions against developing the fields, part of a wider effort by Oslo to overturn an earlier verdict invalidating the permits on environmental grounds.
A lower court ruled in January that Norway’s energy ministry failed to fully assess the climate impact from the future use of the fields’ oil and gas, so-called scope three emissions, in a lawsuit brought by Greenpeace and its partner Nature and Youth.
At that time, the court also ordered temporary injunctions against the development of the three fields known as Yggdrasil, Tyrving and Breidablikk.
But the appeals court in March put the injunctions on hold, giving the government and field operators Aker BP and Equinor leeway to continue working on the fields.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik, editing by Louise Rasmussen)
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