Newsletter: Challenging Defense
Captain Remi Olsen is the 330 Squadron Department Manager in Bodø. In the background, we see Norway's new Search and Rescue helicopter AW101 SAR Queen. (Photo: Hilde Bye).
Dear reader; How should Northern Norway be defended? A debate is currently taking place within the Norwegian Armed Forces about the right answer to this. This week, we have also covered Russian gas' circumvention of Western sanctions, as well as the Swedish defense's 200-year plan, climate change, and Northern Norway's brand-new rescue helicopter.
It is not quiet within the Nordic defense and the current issue is the purchase of new tanks in Norway.
"It is difficult to see that this will lead to anything else than Finnish and Swedish sons and daughters dying on the front line to protect the civilian population in Northern Norway", says Robin Heggblom to High North News.
The new queen
The king is dead, long live the queen;
HNN's journalist Hilde-Gunn Bye took a closer look at the Queen and interviewed Captain Remi Olsen at the 330 Squadron in Bodø, who called the change a milestone.
Gas and cement
Meanwhile, in what appears to be a turn-around for Novatek, the company now projects confidence that it has found ways to overcome EU sanctions and will be able to complete all production lines of its flagship Arctic LNG project by 2026.
A sigh of relief can now be heard throughout Swedish industries.
After much controversy, Swedish Cementa is allowed to continue its lime extraction for four more years. A lot was at stake for the Swedish industry as the company accounts for 75 percent of the cement supply in Sweden.
Climate and language
And do not miss this op-ed about indigenous languages. Read about this and more at High North News.
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Wishing you all the best for this last Advent weekend,
Trine Jonassen, News Editor
This newsletter has been translated by Birgitte Annie Molid Martinussen.