Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The Black Thread,

made possible thanks to the Heinrich Berlstifting,

as part of their Climate Disinformation Media Fellowship for 2025.

The Black Thread is a podcast series

unraveling Norway's complex relationship with prosperity, identity,

and responsibility in a warming world.

And I'm Dickham, a climate communications expert based in Oslo, the Norwegian capital,

tracing the black thread, oil, through Norway's society and culture.

Throughout this series, we've explored how deeply oil is woven into the fabric of Norwegian life.

We've heard experts describe the reach of fossil fuel influence,

and industry insiders explain the logic behind the narratives that they promote. Narratives repeated

anywhere from school classrooms to the Norwegian Parliament, and we've discovered how more and

more people are beginning to push back. But all these insights have considered Norway and Norwegians at large.

We've never zoomed in on any single specific case, place or space in detail.

In this episode, though, we'll do exactly that.

Exploring a key conflict site where the development of Norway's net zero transformation intersect

with its fossil fuel industry, indigenous rights, the youth climate movement, and even critique

from the United Nations. It's a case that was raised in several of the interviews I conducted

for the rest of this series, and which has featured prominently in Norwegian news over recent months,

but which has received little international media attention.

It's a case that distills Norway's climate paradox perfectly.

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