Harmful routines? Uncertainty in science and conflicting views on routine petroleum operations in Norway

Blanchard, Anne; Hauge, Kjellrun Hiis; Andersen, Gisle; Fosså, Jan Helge; Grøsvik, Bjørn Einar; Handegard, Nils Olav; Kaiser, Matthias; Meier, Sonnich; Olsen, Erik; Vikebø, Frode

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.07.001

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“…The application of Best Available Practices and Techniques (BAP/BAT) and the precautionary approach when knowledge is scarce are necessary if we are to balance economic growth and societal development in a healthy planet. New initiatives should address cumulative impacts from different industrial activities and conflict of interests (Blanchard et al, 2014), for example between mining and fishing. This is particularly relevant for STD and DSTP activities, where local populations have described impact on their fisheries.…”

Section: Final Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Submarine and deep-sea mine tailing placements: A review of current practices, environmental issues, natural analogs and knowledge gaps in Norway and internationally

Ramirez-Llodra

Trannum

Evenset

et al. 2015

Marine Pollution Bulletin

133

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Section: Final Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Submarine and deep-sea mine tailing placements: A review of current practices, environmental issues, natural analogs and knowledge gaps in Norway and internationally

Ramirez-Llodra

Trannum

Evenset

et al. 2015

Marine Pollution Bulletin

133

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“…Recently, CWC ecosystems off Norway moved into the focus of researchers due to the technical innovations during the last two decades (Remotely Operated Vehicles, research submersibles, benthic landers, etc. ), and potential human-induced threats, such as bottom trawling Hall-Spencer et al, 2002) and hydrocarbon industry activities (Lepland & Mortensen, 2008;Pabortsava et al, 2011;Bakke et al, 2013;Blanchard et al, 2014). Several projects funded by the European Union and European Social Fund launched interdisciplinary research concentrating on the distribution of CWCs Foss a et al, , 2005Freiwald et al, 2002;Hovland, 2005;Hovland et al, 2005), facies zonation (Freiwald et al, 1997;Freiwald & Wilson, 1998), potential links to hydrocarbon seeps (Hovland et al, 1998(Hovland et al, , 2012Hovland & Risk, 2003), environmental controls (Lindberg et al, 2007;R€ uggeberg et al, 2011), protection and human impact (Hall-Spencer et al, 2002;Tveteraas, 2002;Armstrong & van den Hove, 2008;Lepland & Mortensen, 2008;Purser & Thomsen, 2012), as well as on CWC reproduction (Brooke & J€ arnegren, 2013), molecular genetics (Dahl et al, 2012;Flot et al, 2013), habitat modelling (Tong et al, 2012(Tong et al, , 2013, the diversity of associated fauna and bacteria (Jensen et al, 2008a,b;Buhl-Mortensen et al, 2012;Sch€ ottner et al, 2012;Stalder et al, 2014) and demersal fish distribution patterns (Husebø et al, 2002;…”

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confidence: 99%

Aggradation and carbonate accumulation of Holocene Norwegian cold‐water coral reefs

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Cold‐water coral ecosystems present common carbonate factories along the Atlantic continental margins, where they can form large reef structures. There is increasing knowledge on their ecology, molecular genetics, environmental controls and threats available. However, information on their carbo‐nate production and accumulation is still very limited, even though this information is essential for their evaluation as carbonate sinks. The aim of this study is to provide high‐resolution reef aggradation and carbonate accumulation rates for Norwegian cold‐water coral reefs from various settings (sunds, inner shelf and shelf margin). Furthermore, it introduces a new approach for the evaluation of the cold‐water coral preservation within cold‐water coral deposits by computed tomography analysis. This approach allows the differentiation of various kinds of cold‐water coral deposits by their macrofossil clast size and orientation signature. The obtained results suggest that preservation of cold‐water coral frameworks in living position is favoured by high reef aggradation rates, while preservation of coral rubble prevails by moderate aggradation rates. A high degree of macrofossil fragmentation indicates condensed intervals or unconformities. The observed aggradation rates with up to 1500 cm kyr−1 exhibit the highest rates from cold‐water coral reefs so far. Reef aggradation within the studied cores was restricted to the Early and Late Holocene. Available datings of Norwegian cold‐water corals support this age pattern for other fjords while, on the shelf, cold‐water coral ages are reported additionally from the early Middle Holocene. The obtained mean carbonate accumulation rates of up to 103 g cm−2 kyr−1 exceed previous estimates of cold‐water coral reefs by a factor of two to three and by almost one order of magnitude to adjacent sedimentary environments (shelf, slope and deep sea). Only fjord basins locally exhibit carbonate accumulation rates in the range of the cold‐water coral reefs. Furthermore, cold‐water coral reef carbonate accumulation rates are in the range of tropical reef carbonate accumulation rates. These results clearly suggest the importance of cold‐water coral reefs as local, maybe regional to global, carbonate sinks.

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“…The situation with the cold-water coral Lophelia illustrates this. Despite the fishery industry accounting for 30-50% of damage to Lophelia on the NCS (Fosså et al 2002), there is growing public concern regarding the impact of oil and gas operations (Blanchard et al 2014). In 2003, the North-Atlantic OSPAR Commission 7 included Lophelia in its list of threatened species (OSPAR 2008).…”

Section: Towards Real-time Environmental Monitoring In Northoilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile, the offshore oil and gas operations along the Norwegian coast have gradually expanded into Lophelia habitats. Environmental and fishing concerns are in conflict with the interests of the oil and gas industry (Blanchard et al 2014;Fosså et al 2002). Lophelia represents an interesting and vivid lens into the broader and politicised situation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Digital Coral: Infrastructuring Environmental Monitoring

Parmiggiani

Monteiro

Hepsø

2015

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Abstract. Technologies for collaboration within the oil and gas industry, which are referred to as Integrated Operations, challenge traditional geographical, disciplinary, and organisational boundaries. Fuelled by the availability of sensor networks, faster data transfer technologies, shared data exchange formats, and collaborative work flows, Integrated Operations entail difficult transformations at the technological, social, and political levels. We describe and discuss the efforts of a Scandinavian oil and gas company to develop an information infrastructure for real-time subsea environmental monitoring. This accentuates the ongoing controversy among environmental concerns, fisheries, and the oil and gas industry. Theoretically leaning on infrastructuring and, methodologically, on the concept of infrastructural inversion, our analysis specifically targets the evolution of emergent infrastructures. We identify and discuss the increasing degree of entanglement of the infrastructuring process over time by empirically characterizing two concepts: (1) bootstrapping, which is particularly pronounced in the early stages of infrastructure evolution and involves exploring the local feasibility of subsea environmental monitoring methods and devices, and (2) enactment, which is increasingly present in the later stages of infrastructure evolution to weave environmental information into the agenda of heterogeneous oil and gas professionals.

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Harmful routines? Uncertainty in science and conflicting views on routine petroleum operations in Norway

Cited by 29 publications

References 25 publications

Submarine and deep-sea mine tailing placements: A review of current practices, environmental issues, natural analogs and knowledge gaps in Norway and internationally

Submarine and deep-sea mine tailing placements: A review of current practices, environmental issues, natural analogs and knowledge gaps in Norway and internationally

Aggradation and carbonate accumulation of Holocene Norwegian cold‐water coral reefs

The Digital Coral: Infrastructuring Environmental Monitoring

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