{"id":1387,"date":"2024-10-22T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T16:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:14:14","slug":"the-lasting-legacy-of-norways-worst-ever-industrial-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"The lasting legacy of Norway&#8217;s worst ever industrial disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_2971-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When a North Sea platform capsized, killing 123 oil workers in 1980, poor welding was blamed for what became Norway\u2019s worst-ever industrial disaster. But many of those affected have long questioned the official story.\u00a0This autumn, families and survivors meet in Oslo to support each other and to push for further state compensation for their losses. And I report for from Norway for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-10-october-2024\/audio-70461884\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/inside-europe-10-october-2024\/audio-70461884\">Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle<\/a>, they are still looking for answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/BEVANGER-A.-Kielland-disaster.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a North Sea platform capsized, killing 123 oil workers in 1980, poor welding was blamed for what became Norway\u2019s worst-ever industrial disaster. But many of those affected have long questioned the official story.\u00a0This autumn, families and survivors meet in Oslo to support each other and to push for further state compensation for their losses. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}