The End of Historical Norwegian Activist Group

The People's Action for an Oil-free Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Senja aimed to keep the sea areas outside Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Senja clean and oil-free.

When the People's Action was founded in 2009, the founders saw this as a near-impossible task, but now consider the People's Action to have succeeded and that the areas are protected from petroleum operations. That is reported by the People's Action in a press release.

The People's Action for an Oil-free Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Senja is therefore being shut down, which is marked with a final, free people's festival on the 5th of August, with political debates, a book launch, and a concert in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Northern Norway.

The leader of the People's Action, Bente Lorentzen, believes the victory is historical and that it will be significant for those who work for change in national and international climate policy.

"The People's Action did what no one that was possible. That the oil nation Norway leaves oil and gas under the seabed for the benefit of fishing, climate, and nature is an extremely important signal to the rest of the world which is already fighting the consequences of climate change and for the protection of fishery and nature," says Lorentzen.