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Denmark to stop pumping oil, gas in North Sea

by Jan M. Olsen
| December 4, 2020 3:06 AM

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has decided to end to all oil and gas offshore activities in the North Sea by 2050 and has cancelled its latest licensing round, saying the country is "now putting an end to the fossil era.”

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