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Dale power station

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

In 1923 Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (BKK) expropriated large areas for power plants and development of hydropower started soon afterwards. ...

Sunde

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Geir Røssland

In 1852 Haktor Thorsen erected two large warehouses on one of his farms in Sunde and started trading and salting herring. This was the start of an ind...

Rubbestadneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE ENGINE FACTORY AT RUBBESTADNESET...

The cannery at Askvoll

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Sunnfjord Fabrikk / Factory Fiske / Fishing

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

When Norway Foods' cannery at Askvoll was closed down in 1992, the production of sardines had gone on for a longer time at Askvoll that at any other p...

Litlabø

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Tore Lande Moe

The first finds of pyrite at Litlabø in Stord came to light in 1864. Forty years later sulphuric ore was mined from an open mine. From 1874 to 1880 it...

Hydroelectric power and industry at Svelgen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Bygd / Village

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Finn Borgen Førsund

In Bremanger the water resources formed the basis for the development of the industrial town of Svelgen. It took some time before any establishment ...

Alvøen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Per Jahn Lavik

Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for...

Rekvemylna

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

If you enter the farmyard at Rekve, some kilometres from Bulken, where the road departs to Giljarhus, you no longer meet “the miller”, Knut Hernes, in...

The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Randi Bårtvedt Axel Mykleby

Tourist travel in western Norway experienced its great breakthrough with the regular scheduled steamship traffic....

The Pine Forest, the Sash Saw and the Scots Trade

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Danckert Monrad-Krohn

“THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE 17TH CENTURY” “Rats and Scots are of no use to man nor beast” was a popular saying in Bergen. It reflects the annoyance expres...

A True Gold Mine

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Kolle

THE GREAT HERRING ADVENTURE FROM THE 19TH CENTURY In that year the adventure started at Christmas time. The scene is a rural district on the fjord in...

Toftestallen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Herman G. Gade

The large coastal waves that crash down on the islands west in the sea gather their energy from storms and winds all the way out in the North Atlantic...

Power line

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Stein Byrkjeland

When the terminal at Kollsnes in Øygarden was going to be extended in the 1990s, environmental organisations, the local community and politicians dema...

Tysse

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Ivar Bård Aadland

As early as 1862 Svein L.Røsseland started a country store and lodging house at Ytre Tysse, and later on he became steamship agent and the first post ...

Knarrevik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Having passed well over the bridge across to Sotra you pass an industrial plant surrounded by a budding community; the mineral mill of A/S Norwegian T...

Sævareid

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Kåre Engevik

Selsneset

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Kåre Dalland

Frøland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Arve Tvede Stein Byrkjeland

Much rain, a steep drop and nearness to Bergen meant that the power-making potential of the Samnanger water system was exploited early. Samnanger was ...

Stone quarry in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein J. Jansen

Hordaland has been through several "Stone Ages". The first was in the real Stone Age, with Bømlo as its centre. Hard stone as tools and weapons was th...

Mining in Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Øystein J. Jansen

Ølve has the oldest known mines in Hordaland. In 1642, privilege was granted by the king to build an iron works in Jernsmuget on the property of Lille...

Petroleum riches off the coast of Hordaland

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: William Helland-Hansen

Already in the 1750s, Erik Pontioppidan fantasized about the possibility of petroleum in the North Sea, in "Forsøg til Norges naturlige Historie" (= S...

Hummelfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

As early as 1906 the Matre and Haugsdal waterway was bought up by the businessman Blauuw from Bergen; the first “waterfall speculator” in the Matre ar...

Valestrandsfossen - tanning industry

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Anders Haaland

Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of wor...

Varaldsøy - mining

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Haakon Fossen

There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...

Måge

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Sigrid H.H. Kaland

Steatite is a type of stone that is abundant in Hardanger. There are large steatite deposits in the mountain below Folgefonna. These deposits are visi...

Tyssedal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Randi Bårtvedt

Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefal...

Litlematre

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

THE TERRACE THAT LEFT FOR THE CITY ...

Nedre Helland - Sand Quarries

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth Nils Georg Brekke

The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,000...

Eksingedalen - hydropower development

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Endre Skaar Stein Byrkjeland Bjørn Moe

Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and E...

Stormark

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Peter Emil Kaland

Both the climate and people have been decisive in shaping the bog landscape on Fedje - a landscape that has been evolving over several thousands of ye...

Bleie

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: William Helland-Hansen

"What an adventure it was, that big ships came from foreign lands, to collect something so simple as ice. They came like a gust from the wider world, ...

Odda - The industrial town

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Karsten Eitrheim Endre Skaar Nils Georg Brekke

In 1908 the new power station in Tyssedal was completed. A/S Tyssefaldene provided power for the carbide and cyanide factory that was built in Odda. T...

Sysendammen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

Sysendalen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Inge Aarseth

If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on...

Herlandsfossen

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE POWER STATION AT HERLANDSFOSSEN...

The Tingastad saw mill

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Sagbruk / Sawmill

Published: 07.07.1999

Author: Aage Engesæter

Like a green oasis the farm of Tingastad lies in between steep and polished rocks and hostile screes on the shore under the mountain of Storehogen and...

Vaksdal

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Leif Grung

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Christopher Harris

Moster amfi

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

THE LIME INDUSTRY IN MOSTER...

Flakka

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Harald Dalland

Bjørsvik

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke Stein Byrkjeland

The industrial settlement Bjørsvik...

Skaråsmyri

Industry, Energy and Natural Resources

Published: 06.02.2024

Author: Nils Georg Brekke

PEAT EXTRACTION IN SKARÅSMYRI...

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