ABSTRACT
The advent of modern environmentalism altered the relationship between industrial companies, political authorities and the wider civil society. Industrial companies reacted very differently to environmental issues and the changes in the business system. Richard Welford places corporate environmental strategies in five different categories. The risk of cancer of the sinuses was forty times higher among those who had been employed more than five years than for the average population. The company raised and investigated the issue of cancer on its own initiative and it actively sought to mitigate the problem. The Norwegian Ministry of the Environment was established two years later, followed by the State Pollution Control Authority (SFT) in 1973. The new focus on environmental problems helped change the Norwegian business system during the 1970s and 1980s. The Kristiansand organization and local company culture became more and more focused on environmentalism and safety questions.
