FILE PHOTO: Students gather in front of the Parliament building during a protest against climate change in Oslo, Norway March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Nerijus Adomaitis
OSLO (Reuters) - When Norway's largest political party decided that the Lofoten Islands in the north should not be opened up to oil exploration, a chill ran down the spine of the energy industry.
The decision by the opposition Labour party last weekend effectively ended any chance of drilling in the foreseeable future in an area of natural beauty that energy executives say is important to the future of the country's oil production.
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