courtesy Aker Kvaerner

The Norwegian Oil and Energy Ministry feels itself “in the firing line” of a busy European Union whose decision-making apparatus in Brussels undermines the Nordic country’s ability to make policy.

“There’s so much on the EU agenda, that it’s easy to forget (Norway),” Deputy Oil and Energy Minister Liv Monica Stubholt told reporters in Oslo Wednesday.

Stubbolt said some well-meaning EU lawmaking on third-party investments in the energy sector “are not aimed at us but impact us”. She said she wished legislation out of Brussels would be more carefully worded.

“It’s a concern that we will come into the line of fire on some of the things that they do,” Stubbolt added.

Norway is about to embark on its own renewable energy drive set to include wind parks and wave power, while the Nordic country’s structure of support for research into carbon capture and storage technology has been criticized as being unfair stately support.