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Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Stone quarry in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Hordaland has been through several "Stone Ages". The first was in the real Stone Age, with Bømlo as its centre. Hard stone as tools and weapons was th...

Mining in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Øystein J. Jansen
Ølve has the oldest known mines in Hordaland. In 1642, privilege was granted by the king to build an iron works in Jernsmuget on the property of Lille...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Peter Emil Kaland
Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe
Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland
Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Herman G. Gade
The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Power line

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Stein Byrkjeland
When the terminal at Kollsnes in Øygarden was going to be extended in the 1990s, environmental organisations, the local community and politicians dema...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: William Helland-Hansen
"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

Odda - The industrial town

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Karsten Eitrheim Endre Skaar Nils Georg Brekke
In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth

Sysendalen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...