{"id":4805,"date":"2025-09-19T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmf.no\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:59:30","slug":"u-864-rapporten-fra-forsvarsmateriell-er-offentliggjort-stor-glede-med-en-alvorlig-bismak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmf.no\/en\/u-864-rapporten-fra-forsvarsmateriell-er-offentliggjort-stor-glede-med-en-alvorlig-bismak\/","title":{"rendered":"The U-864 report from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency has been published \u2013 Great joy with a serious aftertaste"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U-864 report from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency has been published \u2013 Great joy with a serious aftertaste<\/h2><\/div>\n\t
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Published: 19.09.2025 Written by: Arnfinn Nilsen<\/h6>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Ever since the \u201cmercury submarine\u201d U-864 was found in 2003 off Fedje, north of Bergen, this case has been a festering wound for the coastal people. Popular pressure to have both the wreckage and its deadly cargo\u2014consisting of up to 67 tons of metallic mercury along with ammunition and torpedoes\u2014raised and removed has largely been delayed, ignored, and unfortunately also actively opposed by our authorities. One of this planet\u2019s very greatest environmental problems can certainly not just be \u201cswept under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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NMF is putting up a banner at the main entryway to Bergen in Sandviken, and it will remain there until the entire submarine and all the mercury have been raised and removed from the seabed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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The report that changes the picture of the U-864 case<\/strong><\/h4>\n

NMF has been involved in and actively working on this case ever since it was discovered in 2003 and up to the present day. The recently published report from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (FMA) supports what we have consistently claimed and worked for all along. The only viable solution is to raise both wreck parts completely, removing them from the seabed, and to clean the entire seabed of all contaminated materials. The two other alternatives, which involve either covering everything or raising some of the mercury cargo before covering the rest, have recently been risk-assessed by FMA as carrying significant risk with a high potential for damage. This aligns with the public will and what the Environmental Protection Association has consistently advocated for.<\/p>\n

The risk assessment prepared by the FMA and now published gives us a unique insight into the real scandal: how parts of the bureaucracy have developed and lobbied for their own agenda, and acted as gatekeepers to actively prevent important knowledge from coming to light. This is precisely the role that the Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket) assumed very early in the processes of finding a solution for the submarine and the deadly mercury. The Coastal Administration has a great deal to answer for regarding its handling along the way, and it is also the Coastal Administration that has actively fought against this<\/p>\n

The FMA report on how ammunition safety affects various options for handling mercury in the U-864 submarine wreck and contaminated sediments at the wreck site.<\/p>\n

Selv etter at rapporten hadde blitt lekket til media nektet Kystverket Milj\u00f8vernforbundet og andre innsyn. At rapporten n\u00e5 var blitt offentliggjort ble kun formidlet gjennom media. Milj\u00f8vernforbundets innsynskrav i rapporten og Kystverkets bestillingsbrev til FMA ble avsl\u00e5tt og klage p\u00e5klaget. Rent teknisk ga Forsvarsmateriell avslag p\u00e5 innsyn jf offntleglova \u00a7 15 andre ledd i kombinasjon med \u00a7 12 c, da dette er et dokument som er bestillt til egen saksbehandling fra Kystverket, og samme \u00a7 15 andre ledd har ogs\u00e5 v\u00e6rt Kystverkets begrunnelse for \u00e5 nekte innsyn. Milj\u00f8vernforbundet har derfor gitt Kystverket en god dose voksenoppl\u00e6ring i hvordan offentleglova fungerer i v\u00e5re to klager p\u00e5 avsl\u00e5tt innsyn. NMFs klager p\u00e5 avsl\u00e5tt innsyn kan leses her:<\/p>\n

Vedlegg:<\/p>\n