Norway defends energy exploration in Arctic | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 25.01.2011

If we say, from Norway's side, we will stop all gas exploration as a contribution to a more climate friendly world - that will not be the consequence. The consequence will be that coal consumption will go up.

So we have to be there as a stable provider of natural gas, we have to be there as a technological advanced nation that can develop technologies that can take down emissions and create that bridge to the low carbon future that we all need.