ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how global uncertainties arising from climate science inform the Norwegian petroleum debate and how controversies and processes related to oil extraction in environmentally sensitive areas travel between conflicting logics and arguments. Moreover, the chapter addresses the interplay between politics, knowledge, and technology to show how different actors and entities enact oil as safety and/or (future) insecurity. The analysis suggests that behind the discourse and storylines about the country’s “petroleum adventure”, there are both contradictions and ambivalence. Focus is placed on how Norway actively uses different framings to reconcile its role as an oil and gas producer with the ambition of being a forerunner in international climate negotiations. The chapter’s last section examines factors that are delaying Norway’s green shift towards a more diversified and less oil-dependent economy.
