The Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment is reviewing a private member's bill calling for Hurummarka to be protected under the Marka Act and for a new feasibility study on military high-explosive production. A majority from the Labour Party, Progress Party, Conservative Party, and Liberal Party recommends rejecting the proposal, while a minority argues for protecting the area and exploring alternative locations for the explosives facility.
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The Storting calls on the government to propose designating Hurummarka as a formally protected area under the law governing natural areas in Oslo and neighbouring municipalities (the Marka Act), and to ensure that construction and development projects in the area are prohibited unless specific legal authority exists.
The Storting calls on the government to commission a new feasibility study for establishing a new military high-explosive production facility in Norway, where travel time is not included as a weighted variable, where the aim is to select the location with the least negative impact on nature and outdoor recreation, and where better knowledge is gathered about potential environmental consequences for the Oslofjord to inform a new location decision. The study should also evaluate multiple alternative locations outside the Oslofjord's watershed.
The Storting calls on the government to conduct a new feasibility study for locating a military high-explosive production facility in Norway in parallel with the current project, evaluating several realistic alternatives so that the location decision is based on a broader and more verifiable foundation should one alternative prove unfeasible.
Document 8:116 S (2025–2026) – Private member's bill from MPs Une Bastholm, Frøya Skjold Sjursæther, Marius Langballe Dalin, Lars Haltbrekken, Kirsti Bergstø, Sofie Marhaug, Bjørnar Moxnes and Marie Sneve Martinussen on preserving Hurummarka – is rejected.