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A worker walks at the Yara ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, in August 2017.

Yara cuts cast doubt on Europe’s fertilizer production

Skyrocketing natural gas prices have nitrogen producers wary

Reuters – Norway’s Yara, one of the world’s largest fertilizer makers, is slashing ammonia production due to soaring gas prices, raising questions about Europe’s ability to produce enough fertilizer for its crops. Ammonia plays a key role in the manufacturing of fertilizer. Without it, crop yields will deteriorate because nutrients removed from soil during harvesting

Yara’s headquarters in Oslo. (Yara.com)

Yara to stop buying potash from Belarus due to sanctions

Fertilizer firm buys 10-15 per cent of country's potash output

Oslo | Reuters — Norwegian fertilizer maker Yara said on Monday it will wind down purchases of potash from Belarus by April 1 as international sanctions made it impossible to continue the trade. Yara estimates that it buys 10-15 per cent of the annual output of state-owned Belaruskali, one of the world’s largest producers of


Sami reindeer herder Nils Mathis Sara, 60, drives his ATV as he follows a herd of reindeer on the Finnmark Plateau, Norway, June 16, 2018.

Norway in legal quandary after wind turbines ruled a threat to reindeer herder rights

Future of part of Europe’s biggest wind farm in question as government says case legally, politically complex

Reuters – Norway faces hard choices over the future of two major wind farms stripped of their licences for jeopardizing the way of life of Sami reindeer herders, but it remains unclear whether they should be dismantled, the energy minister said.  While herders in the Fosen region of coastal central Norway have called for the