By European standards, yes, Norway was poor. Especially so if you compare it to Sweden and Denmark. How is this not the fact when Norway didn't even have a single university at the turn of the 19th century, while Finland "under the boot" of Sweden had already had one since the Middle Ages? And Norway was treated by the Danish crown as a "back-country" whose language they didn't even recognize and called their language "Danish". Sweden, and to a lesser extent, Denmark, had always been the center of money and power.
In Norway, some prjects might extend its promised years by a couple, but seldom they get abandoned. Can't think of any projects in the last 20 years which has been abandoned
People like you should run the world!, greed is the end of us all, the only way forward is to help each other. When we all do good, there is peace and stability. The duty of the strong is to carry the weak. best wishes from Norway.
The Rogfast project, a 27km undersea tunnel is well under way after some delays due to increasing costs. It had to go back to parliament for more funding. Right now the road is expected to open around 2033.
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 Nothing of Rogfast is open. Rogfast is the tunnel itself, which goes from Randaberg in the south to Bokn in the north. That tunnel is not open, and will not be opened until 2033 when it is finished.
2033 is optimistic though. We're in 2024, they were planning to finish in 2031, and they're already two years behind schedule 😅 The ferry-free E39 project has a tentative completion date of "around 2050" 😝
so weird, I've always thought of Brazil as a 1st world country, guess I was wrong. While growing up, we always heard how good and how much money Statoil/Equinor made in Brazil and that it was benefiting us here in Norway
It is no use for a country to invest in electric cars, ferries or other power-intensive installations if the country does not have sufficient electrical energy, which Norway does. Our country has little arable land, but we have mountains and abundant rainfall, so our rivers supply us with large amounts of energy that hardly any other country has access to - unless they build nuclear power plants. Now, however, our politicians have sold our energy to Europe, so Norwegians have to pay a lot for energy that is almost free to produce, and which strictly belongs to the people. Electric cars and buses can also be problematic in a country as cold as Norway, and with large distances. If you have a heated garage, an electric car works perfectly, but by heating the garage, you change the calculation for how environmentally friendly electric cars are if the energy comes from sources other than hydropower. Wind power is not very popular in Norway. The Norwegian mountains are being built down with roads to the plants, bogs are dug up (and release CO2), forests are cut down and pastures for wild animals are laid under asphalt. The roads that are built must be large and wide to transport the masts and rotor blades that are used to build the huge turbines that are installed. The lifetime of the turbines is not very long, and experience from other countries shows that when the plant is decommissioned, they are left standing and decaying in nature. Norwegian politicians were skilled in the past, but the ones we have today are amateurs. They are unable to think long term.
This project is under constant revision, and this video presents one of the earlier propolsas as if this is the actual blueprint for the finished product. And I can guarantee that it won't be finished by 2026. Partially because of funding and revision of the national budget, partially because of local democracy. Every municipality has to green-ligth the project through their area in order to proceed, and there are many conserns, like private property, local environmental issues, cost, etc etc.
No, Rogfast is far from completion. The project has faced a significant seven-year delay primarily due to unexpected geological challenges and equipment breakdowns, leading to cost overruns. The revised completion date is now set for 2033. In the autumn of 2019, all contracts were canceled, prompting a comprehensive review and the establishment of a revised budget. Work on the project resumed in the winter of 2021.
Hello from Norway, This film is decent enough but must probably be seen as a bit of political propaganda, Yes we have a well-functioning country and a lot of money and a good management but of course there will also be problems... not so big maybe. One of the biggest upcoming problems is that too few children will be born to keep the population up in the future, which in turn means that there will be more pensioners than young people, the challenge will be to get enough people to work in the health sector, etc..... All in all, I love my country above all else, I spend a lot of time in nature, such as hunting, fishing and health-giving hikes in our fantastic mountains..... and I pay the tax with pleasure, quite sure there are very few countries in the world that give as much back for their tax money as Norway does.
Not sure where you got that number from because it was about 20 000 public charging points along Norwegian roads when we entered 2024. 7741 out of them was fast chargers
As a matter of fact Norway had one of the highest GDPs per capita in Europe LONG before oil was discovered.
I live on the E39 corridor about an hour south of Trondheim. That section is done but it took years to build the 6 tunnels in this 50 km section.
Can we be done with the myth that Norway was poor before the oil?
This is political propaganda, but the historical facts tells another story.
By European standards, yes, Norway was poor. Especially so if you compare it to Sweden and Denmark. How is this not the fact when Norway didn't even have a single university at the turn of the 19th century, while Finland "under the boot" of Sweden had already had one since the Middle Ages? And Norway was treated by the Danish crown as a "back-country" whose language they didn't even recognize and called their language "Danish". Sweden, and to a lesser extent, Denmark, had always been the center of money and power.
In Norway, some prjects might extend its promised years by a couple, but seldom they get abandoned. Can't think of any projects in the last 20 years which has been abandoned
Greetings from Norway❤🇳🇴 Love your reactions👍😃
People like you should run the world!, greed is the end of us all, the only way forward is to help each other. When we all do good, there is peace and stability. The duty of the strong is to carry the weak. best wishes from Norway.
The Rogfast project, a 27km undersea tunnel is well under way after some delays due to increasing costs. It had to go back to parliament for more funding. Right now the road is expected to open around 2033.
(Parts are open)
@@monicabredenbekkskaar1612 Nothing of Rogfast is open. Rogfast is the tunnel itself, which goes from Randaberg in the south to Bokn in the north. That tunnel is not open, and will not be opened until 2033 when it is finished.
2033 is optimistic though. We're in 2024, they were planning to finish in 2031, and they're already two years behind schedule 😅
The ferry-free E39 project has a tentative completion date of "around 2050" 😝
É um projeto enorme e caro, e a parte do túnel Rogfast foi adiada até 2033 devido ao aumento de custos. É muito comum na Noruega, assim como no Brasil
Tunnel construction has started and the opening will be in 2033
Peace love from England ❤
so weird, I've always thought of Brazil as a 1st world country, guess I was wrong. While growing up, we always heard how good and how much money Statoil/Equinor made in Brazil and that it was benefiting us here in Norway
It is no use for a country to invest in electric cars, ferries or other power-intensive installations if the country does not have sufficient electrical energy, which Norway does. Our country has little arable land, but we have mountains and abundant rainfall, so our rivers supply us with large amounts of energy that hardly any other country has access to - unless they build nuclear power plants. Now, however, our politicians have sold our energy to Europe, so Norwegians have to pay a lot for energy that is almost free to produce, and which strictly belongs to the people.
Electric cars and buses can also be problematic in a country as cold as Norway, and with large distances. If you have a heated garage, an electric car works perfectly, but by heating the garage, you change the calculation for how environmentally friendly electric cars are if the energy comes from sources other than hydropower.
Wind power is not very popular in Norway. The Norwegian mountains are being built down with roads to the plants, bogs are dug up (and release CO2), forests are cut down and pastures for wild animals are laid under asphalt. The roads that are built must be large and wide to transport the masts and rotor blades that are used to build the huge turbines that are installed. The lifetime of the turbines is not very long, and experience from other countries shows that when the plant is decommissioned, they are left standing and decaying in nature. Norwegian politicians were skilled in the past, but the ones we have today are amateurs. They are unable to think long term.
This project is under constant revision, and this video presents one of the earlier propolsas as if this is the actual blueprint for the finished product. And I can guarantee that it won't be finished by 2026. Partially because of funding and revision of the national budget, partially because of local democracy. Every municipality has to green-ligth the project through their area in order to proceed, and there are many conserns, like private property, local environmental issues, cost, etc etc.
Rogfast is near Stavanger , not Bergen. And no the country didn't look like that in 1969, those pictures are from the 1800s to early 1900s.
No, Rogfast is far from completion. The project has faced a significant seven-year delay primarily due to unexpected geological challenges and equipment breakdowns, leading to cost overruns. The revised completion date is now set for 2033. In the autumn of 2019, all contracts were canceled, prompting a comprehensive review and the establishment of a revised budget. Work on the project resumed in the winter of 2021.
Hello from Norway, This film is decent enough but must probably be seen as a bit of political propaganda, Yes we have a well-functioning country and a lot of money and a good management but of course there will also be problems... not so big maybe. One of the biggest upcoming problems is that too few children will be born to keep the population up in the future, which in turn means that there will be more pensioners than young people, the challenge will be to get enough people to work in the health sector, etc..... All in all, I love my country above all else, I spend a lot of time in nature, such as hunting, fishing and health-giving hikes in our fantastic mountains..... and I pay the tax with pleasure, quite sure there are very few countries in the world that give as much back for their tax money as Norway does.
2700 fast charging stations for cars in Norway and counting.
Not sure where you got that number from because it was about 20 000 public charging points along Norwegian roads when we entered 2024. 7741 out of them was fast chargers