Hello!
I am continuing one of my threads.
I have been writing about the liberalisation of the market for
electricity in Norway. To recapitulate:
The regulations of the waterlevel in the dams which contains the
water of the hydroelectrical powerplants were removed, and the dams
went empty afterwards. This had never happened before because in
years with less rain than usual we used to buy so much electricity
from Sweden that we managed without turning our mountain lakes into
deserts and mud. But when the regulations were removed the utilities
were allowed to create these local ecological catastrophes. People
were angry.
The authorities wanted to repair the situation by building
gaspowerplant. The resistence has been so strong that the
construction has been stopped until now. The constructionwork was
supposed to start last autumn by preparing the construction sites,
but the local authorities said no, they did not want this because
with the strong resistance it was quite possible the work was not
going to be fullfilled, and they did not want to allow the building
of ruins.
The new thing today is that "Norsk Hydro" is developing new
technology for gaspowerplants where they are going to produce
hydrogen and take care of the carbondioxyd and pump it into the
ground in the oilfields in the North Sea, and they will provide
electricity to the oilfields from the new powerplants, and thereby
reduces the Norwegian emissions of carbondioxyd. I think it is
possible that the gaspowerplants will be built. But I will say that
the resistance has been succesful, because it stopped the plans of
building powerplants with existing technology and forced the
development of new a better technology.
Tor Forde
