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Viceroy's FOIA Request to the Ministry of Climate and Environment & NEA

On August 28, 2026, Viceory sought information concerning BMM's Nussir project from the Ministry of Climate and Environment & the National Environmental Agency in Norway under the Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Act.

Our requests seeks the following records:

  • Every submission, meeting record and calendar entry between Norwegian authorities and Blue Moon, Nussir ASA, or their advisers, including any lobbying after the Supreme Court judgment.

  • Norway's formal approval of Nussir's "Strategic Project" designation under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act. This a document that must exist, that no one has seen, and that committed the government to the project's feasibility eleven months before its dumping permit's legal basis collapsed.

  • All correspondence with the European Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority concerning Nussir, the CRMA, and the Water Framework Directive.

  • The Ministry's internal, "not yet completed" assessment of the judgment, including whether it exists at all.

  • Records of the legally required consultations with the Sámi Parliament and reindeer-herding districts before the permit amendments Blue Moon announced seven days after the judgment, or confirmation that none took place.

  • The full decision basis for those June 2026 approvals, including how the objections of Norway's own Institute of Marine Research were handled.

Norwegian law grants a separate, stronger right of access to environmental information. We will publish what we receive.

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