Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store gives a speech during the Autumn 2024 conference of Equinor, a Norwegian multinational energy company, in Oslo, Norway on November 26, 2024.
Norway has shelved plans to open a vast ocean area at the bottom of the Arctic for commercial-scale deep-sea mining.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre described the move as a "postponement," Reuters reported Sunday, citing comments delivered to private broadcaster TV2.
Støre leads Norway's center-left Labor Party, which is the senior party in a minority government coalition with the Center Party.
The practice of deep-sea mining involves using heavy machinery to remove minerals and metals — such as cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese — from the seabed, where they build up as potato-sized nodules.
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