By Nerijus Adomaitis and Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's minority government should withdraw its proposal to open a vast Arctic offshore area ...
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Norway could become the first nation to make deep sea mining happen on a commercial scale if the country's parliament approves a plan to open ocean an area larger than the United Kingdom to the new industry. The mining could provide a source for such metals as copper and rare earth elements for the transition away from fossil fuels.
"We will not vote for the proposal that the government has put forward. We think that it should be sent back to the government," Lars Haltbrekken, SV's spokesman on energy and environment, told Reuters.
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