Norway consideres more nationalization

[RGacky3]

On a small scale for gree industries, heres the piece from kalssekampen (http://klassekampen.no/59326/article/item/null/apen-for-statlig-kjop). A while back they were considering creating a government minerals company like statoil only for mining, I don't know what happened to that but I obviously support it.

If you don't read Norwegian (as most of you probably don't), use google translate and just copy and paste the URL in google translate.

Its obvious that this is more about green industry and ideology, but I hope they go the nationalizatoin route rather than just regulation.

Thats one good thing that Norway has (that other countries do not), because they have a HUGE oil fund they can easily take over industry and run it for the public interest, so thank God Oil is nationalized in Norway.

[RichardAWilson]

Well, clean energy happens to be the future "bubble boom business." I think Norway would do well to establish a nationwide clean energy conglomerate. (I.e. Solar, Wind Turbines, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass)

[Bud Struggle]

I heard that Norway was considering a hike on the height of turttle neck sweaters: from 2 1/2 inch to 3 inches. Protests in the streets of Oslo.



Gacky: listen, there's 5 million people in Sweden, oops Norway--who cares what they do? They are the Zapatistas of the north.

They have a nice life--God Bless them. They don't count.

[RichardAWilson]

The Unified Scandinavian Economy (I.e. Norway, Sweden and Finland) is larger than the Big Apple's and California's. I guess Manhattan and California don't matter?

[Bud Struggle]

The Unified Scandinavian Economy (I.e. Norway, Sweden and Finland) is larger than the Big Apple's and California's. I guess Manhattan and California don't matter?

That's all NICE but, no. They are feeder states--like NYC and California on the real mechanism that makes the world go round.

Botiques. Cute. Blonde and dimpled. But really, trully and deeply: Abba.

[RichardAWilson]

Withdraw Norway's oil off the global system and you'll see how valuable they are to us. The same can be said of Finland's telecom sector, which is the cornerstone of Northern Europe's IT Business.

[RGacky3]

Buds just hating, if you got nothing to say Bud then don't say anything.

[Demogorgon]

Buds just hating, if you got nothing to say Bud then don't say anything.
He's just trying to wind people up. I have to say though as I sit in a room full of Swedish furniture, powering my computer from an energy grid that is shortly going to be integrated with the Norwegian one and planning to eat something soon that will include Finish products as well as listen to a number of bands from Scandinavia while utilising technology at least some of which will be coming from Sweden and Finland, it is hard to see how the Nordic countries can be considered unimportant.

[RichardAWilson]

Don't forget driving a Swedish car (Volvo) and a cleaning with a Swedish vacuum (Electrolux), the 2nd largest home appliance manufacturer in the world after Whirlpool. Also, irregardless of Nokia's current condition, it remains the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the entire world, employing over 132,000 men and women in 120 countries. Go Finlandia! - The name of a popular Vodka that's produced in Finland using pure glacier ice.


Nothing sucks like an Electrolux. =)


Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_Nordic_companies

[RGacky3]

(top 4 Norwegian companies are mostly state owned, most of the other huge ones have partial government ownership),

It loks like the State is'nt gonna nationalize that company (REC), its a shame, but the premis was wrong to begin with IMO, the argument should have been that the industry is of public concern, rather than about the company itself.