Atle Staalesen

Transshipment of LNG starts on harsh and windy Kola coast

Support ships jam by the island of Kildin as the first tankers sail towards Novatek's new hub for reloading of liquified natural gas.
November 24, 2020

Moscow lashes out against Oslo, but courts Norwegian population

The Russian Foreign Ministry accuses the government in Oslo of manipulating public opinion over bilateral relations.
November 23, 2020

Oslo fends off climate activists, offers oil companies 136 new oil block in northern waters

As the Norwegian government awaits the Supreme Court's verdict in a historic climate law suit, it announces another 136 oil blocks in northern waters.
November 19, 2020

Singaporean trader Trafigura teams up with Rosneft in extreme Arctic oil project

The trading company buys a 10 percent stake in Vostok Oil, the Russian project that in five years is to deliver 30 million tons of oil from the most desolate Arctic coast.
November 18, 2020

Pressure mounts on Murmansk Governor Andrey Chibis as prospects for grand coal project turn dark

The regional leader underlines that construction continues. But key investors are fleeing the Murmansk Transport Hub and Lavna coal terminal.
November 17, 2020

Permafrost melting did not trigger oil spill catastrophe, says Russian control authority

A report from federal technical inspection authority Rostekhnadzor concludes that construction faults and maintenance negligence were main reasons for the spill of 21,000 tons of diesel oil in the far northern Taymyr tundra.
November 17, 2020

25,000 medical students are sent out to help Russia's COVID-struck hospitals

The virus is putting the healthcare system on its knees. A massive number of students are now sent out to aid.
November 13, 2020

Gazprom announces record-beating natural gas discovery on Arctic shelf

The Leningradskoye field in the Kara Sea has a commercial gas inflow of over 1 million cubic meters per day, the company says.
November 11, 2020

Developers of trans-Arctic cable draw closer to Nordic coast

The unprecedented low levels of Arctic sea-ice this summer enabled survey ship Professor Logachev to smoothly study vast areas of seabed as part of the Arctic Connect project.
November 11, 2020

Environmentalists say oil spill in Nenets river was far more serious than claimed by authorities

Environmental organization Save Pechora Committee suspects that local authorities deliberately withheld information about last month's spill in the Kolva river.
November 10, 2020

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Atle is journalist and Publisher of the Independent Barents Observer.

In 2002, he founded the Barents Observer. He was editor until 2009 and later worked as journalist and project coordinator for several European cross-border cooperation projects. In late 2015, following a conflict over editorial rights, he re-established the Barents Observer as an independent and non-profit stock company along with the rest of the newspaper crew.  

Atle has a degree in Russian studies from the University of Oslo and studied journalism at the Moscow State University.

atle@thebarentsobserver.com
@atlestaalesen