UNCOMPROMISING: In one talk friday Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said security forces would continue to fire at rebels – whom he called “terrorists” and “bandits” – without warning. President swept away calls for a dialogue with the demonstrators as “nonsense”.
According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, at least 3,000 demonstrators were remanded in custody. Official figures, which cannot be confirmed by other sources, also show that 26 people are called by authorities “Armed criminals” were killed in the bloody and violent clashes that have plagued Kazakhstan since Sunday. Since the internet was sometimes shut down in several places, it was difficult to determine the extent of the damage.
The protests were sparked in the western oil region in direct response to soaring fuel prices, but turned into a protest against the authoritarian government and former President Nursultan Nazarbayev (81). This morning, after the president received aid from Russian-led troops who fled into the country, was quieter streets in Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, but gunshots were heard from the city’s central square.
BE CONSIDERED AS “AFFAIR OF IMPACT”: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg demands a response from the government on Norwegian oil drilling, after Greenpeace, Nature et Jeunesse and six environmental activists complained to the Norwegian State to EMD for opening oil drilling in the Barents Sea. In a letter, the EMD now writes that the case is considered an ‘impact case’, which means that it may have significance for the European legal system and be a priority in the courts. You can read more about the trial, which could have far-reaching consequences for European environmental policy by Filter Miserable Friday, the climate section of our subscribers, which you can now test for free for 30 days by registering here.
“HAND GRAND” IN DANISH POLICY: A player from the head of radical left (also known as the Radicals, a sister party to the Liberal Party in Norway) is creating a political outcry in Denmark. The party is today a party supporting the government of Mette Frederiksen, but Sofie Carsten Nielsen now totally refuses to support a purely social democratic government after the next elections. – We rule out designating a one-party government, says Nielsen, and opens to appoint Conservative and Liberal premiers. At the same time, the leader of the Social-Liberal Party declares that the party is willing to accept that it is not possible to change the basic features of the strict Danish immigration policy. Some commentators call the intrigue “desperate” while other supporting parties in the current government situation accuse Nielsen / The Radicals of being “selfish”.
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USE NORWAY FOR THE DEFENSE OF TJÆRESAND: The Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan wilkinson, slides Upcoming Norwegian oil drilling to defend Canada’s continued exports of the country’s controversial oil sands projects: “For the demand for oil that still exists, Canada must extract value from its resources, as do the United States, Britain in the North Sea and Norway.”. Wilkinson said at the same time that Canada would be “very aggressive” in its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. The tar sands are one of the most carbon-intensive forms of oil extraction and one of the main climate and environmental contributors. The Trudeau government has long pressured the United States to build the controversial pipeline XL keystone from the oil sands fields of Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, but the president Joe biden abandoned plans in June. Equinor previously held billions of investments in oil sands companies, however sold the latest actions in January of last year.
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