Norwegian PM defends Snoehvit arctic LNG facility

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"I regret that there have been huge technical problems." That's a speech I always hate to give.

STAVANGER, Norway (Reuters) - Norway's prime minister on Tuesday defended StatoilHydro's $10 billion Snoehvit liquefied natural gas facility in the Arctic despite numerous start-up problems and higher carbon emission levels.

"I regret that there have been huge technical problems," Jens Stoltenberg told a news conference at an ONS energy conference in Stavanger on Norway's North Sea coast.

"StatoilHydro is taking this very seriously and is committing big resources to solve the problem," he said about production problems which have lowered output and produced unexpected soot and pollution in the Arctic region.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSLQ29038220080826?rpc=401&

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1. Norway is just chock full of regrets. They regret that they had to cancel their stupid

sequestration Ponzi scheme in the North Sea, because it "wasn't economic" and they regret that they helped hype a stupid wind to hydrogen scheme on Utsira that amounted to exactly zero in the grand scheme of things.

And they regret all of their new dangerous natural gas power plants too.

They're typical anti-nukes in that country, bullshit dangerous fossil fuel apologists.