Norway compromises on heated Arctic oil exploration issue
Doug Mellgren Associated Press Writer
Norway’s oil minister offered a compromise in a heated debate about Arctic oil exploration that will protect the ecologically important Lofoten islands, but reopened the prospect of drilling farther north in the Barents Sea.
A moratorium on oil drilling in the area has been in place since 2001, pen....
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