A greener shade of black? Statoil, the Norwegian government and climate change,1990—2005

Nissen, Ada

doi:10.1080/03468755.2021.1876757

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“…The first is the "clean oil" argument, which has similarly been used in other oilproducing regions, such as Norway [65]. This argument is based on the relatively smaller amount of greenhouse gasses emitted from oil production in NL-much less than, for instance, the oil sands in Alberta, Canada.…”

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Oil, Transitions, and the Blue Economy in Canada

2022

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Decisions about whether to include oil in blue economy plans can be controversial but also fundamental to the ability of these plans to transform (or not) business-as-usual in the oceans. This paper examines (a) how oil is sometimes included and justified in blue economy planning when its development is at odds with climate commitments and the need for just transitions away from fossil fuels, and (b) how oil could be included in blue economy planning, or transitions to blue economies and just energy transitions away from oil. We examine how tensions between sustainability/climate commitments and oil development impacts are resolved in practice, specifically by analyzing a particular approach to the blue economy that focuses on technology and innovation. The overlap of oil with renewable energy, specifically through technology, has become an important part of the recent ocean and blue economy narratives in oil-producing nations and illustrates the contradictions inherent in ocean development discourse. We draw specifically on the case of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), the only province in Canada with a mature offshore oil industry and thus the region most potentially impacted by decisions about whether to include oil in Canada’s blue economy. We argue that the blue economy approach to ocean governance being enacted in NL is currently being used as a form of legitimation for continuing the development of oil with no real transition plan away from it. Furthermore, we argue that blue economy plans must not only envision transitions to renewables but also explicitly and actively transitions away from oil to minimize environmental and social justice and equity issues at multiple scales. We end by highlighting some necessary conditions for how ocean economies that include oil, can transition to sustainable and equitable blue economies.

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Oil, Transitions, and the Blue Economy in Canada

2022

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Early knowledge but delays in climate actions: An ecocide case against both transnational oil corporations and national governments

Hauser,

Vadén,

Nagatsu

et al. 2024

Environmental Science & Policy

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With Statoil as a Prism: Revisiting Key Features and Concerns in Western Oil Companies’ Evolving Human Rights Awareness, From the Mid-1990s to the 2000s

Nissen

2023

Enterp. Soc.

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This article uses Statoil (Equinor since 2018) as a prism to explore some key features and concerns of Western oil companies’ evolving human rights awareness from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. This period saw the first human rights lawsuits brought against oil companies and a gradual change in their human rights awareness. The article uses insights from the business history literature and new archival material from the oil industry to explain why business ethicists and legal scholars are wrong to argue that the relationship between business and social responsibility, on the one hand, and business and human rights, on the other, are inherently problematic and profoundly disparate due to their divergent historical origins. In so doing, the article offers a historical take on the so-called debate between business human rights (BHR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and it repudiates the argument that a so-called minimal understanding of human rights has hindered business from undertaking proactive human rights initiatives. Mapping onto both the business history literature and the BHR–CSR debate, the article aims for a richer understanding of the experiences and ideas that incentivized oil companies to “get serious” about human rights.

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A greener shade of black? Statoil, the Norwegian government and climate change,1990—2005

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Oil, Transitions, and the Blue Economy in Canada

Oil, Transitions, and the Blue Economy in Canada

Early knowledge but delays in climate actions: An ecocide case against both transnational oil corporations and national governments

With Statoil as a Prism: Revisiting Key Features and Concerns in Western Oil Companies’ Evolving Human Rights Awareness, From the Mid-1990s to the 2000s

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