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Blue Moon Metals - Norway Moves To Reverse The Permits

On Friday, Norway activated the legal route for reversing invalid sea -disposal approvals while examining whether Nussir’s permit suffers the same defect.

September 29, 2026 – Blue Moon Metals (TSXV : MOON) denials have not aged well.

Last Friday (September 25) Norway delegated authority to the Ministry of Climate and Environment to "reverse decisions made in royal decree on 19 February 2016". The government relied expressly on section 35(1)(c) of the Public Administration Act: the power to reverse a decision that "must be considered invalid".

This specific royal decree was the decision by which Norway rejected an appeal against the Ministry of Climate and Environment's June 2015 permit for Nordic Mining, which authorized rutile extraction and sea disposal of tailings in Førdefjorden for their Engebø mine. In rejecting the appeal, the decree finalized that permit; the same one the Supreme Court later declared invalid in June 2026, for failing to satisfy Article 4(7) of the Water Framework Directive.

It has been striking to watch Norwegian public officials, whose core mandate is environmental protection, repeatedly defend Engebø and Nussir; two mines with limited, if any, commercial viability even if they were permitted to operate.

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