Cited in grandparent climate change action group article

I am cited in an article published online by Besteforeldreaksjonen [The grandparent action], a Norwegian climate change action group. The article is titled "Debatt om olje og forskningsetikk" [Debate on oil and research ethics], and the citation derives from the interview with me by Forskerforum in their frontpage story "Strid om oljeforsking" [Conflict on oil research], published December 2nd 2013. Besteforeldreaksjonen's article was published December 4th 2013.

News article in Forskerforum on NENT's petroleum research statement

The Norwegian research journal Forskerforum has today, on its online edition, published an article entitled "Må legge oljeforskning på vekta" [/Must consider petroleum research more closely/], in relation to the statement released today by Norway's National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) on the research ethics of petroleum research in light of climate change. The article includes a link to the previous article "Strid om oljeforsking" [Conflict on oil research], published in December, where I am interviewed.

In today's news article, NENT committee leader Øyvind Mikkelsen says that if research activities [in petroleum research] prevents Norway from achieving official climate change goals which the country has committed to, this is indefensible. 

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National Committee for Research Ethics critical to current petroleum research policies

Interviewed by research magazine on ties between UiS and oil industry

Yesterday I was interviewed by the magazine Forskerforum [Forum for research] about the Norwegian universities' relation to the oil industry. Bill McKibben was recently awarded with the Sophie Prize, and this has sparked some debate on Statoil's and other oil companies sponsoring of university research. This is happening at the University of Stavanger, where I work, and has not been subjected to ethical debate. In my opinion research supporting enhanced oil recovery and opening of new fields far north (e.g. drilling technology) should be phased out.

The interview will appear in print in Forskerforum no. 10/2013, which will appear around the 1st of December. Forskerforum, which is published by The Norwegian Association of Researchers (Forskerforbundet), has a distribution of around 18.000 copies.