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Environmental activists sue Norway over seabed mineral plan

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Environmental campaigners have filed a lawsuit at an Oslo court challenging Norway's plan for seabed mineral exploration, citing insufficient impact assessment of the mining, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and its lawyer said on Friday. Norway's parliament in January approved a proposal to open a vast ocean area larger than Britain for seabed mineral exploration after a government-commissioned study concluded that its impact would be minimal.
 
 
 
 
 

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