US EditionFamilies to Receive Compensation From Norwegian State After Oil Rig Tragedy
- The Norwegian parliament voted on June 5, 2025, to provide compensation to survivors and families of the Alexander Kielland oil rig disaster from 1980.
- The motion was introduced by opposition parties after decades of campaigning, despite initial government opposition and a close vote of 53 to 51.
- The disaster caused the capsizing of the platform in the North Sea on 27 March 1980, killing 123 men including 22 Britons, and was linked to a structural crack from construction flaws.
- Survivors like Laura Fleming expressed that compensation represents justice and acknowledgement after 45 years of neglect, emphasizing the principle over monetary value.
- This decision may close a long-standing open wound for many affected, while the government must now determine compensation details and has issued an official apology.
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Norway to set up compensation scheme for 1980 oil rig disaster victims’ families
Forty-five years after the Alexander L Kielland oil rig capsized in the North Sea, Norway’s parliament has voted to set up a compensation scheme for relatives of the 123 men who died in the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the second world war. “This is a historic day, the end of more than four decades of fighting for justice,” said Mímir Kristjánsson, an MP from the leftwing Red party. The chair of the victims’ committee, Anders Helliks…
The daughter of an Icelandic man who was among the 123 people who died when an oil rig capsized near Norway in the spring of 1980 is overjoyed that the families of the dead will finally receive compensation for their loss. The Norwegian parliament yesterday approved a proposal that the survivors of the accident, as well as the families of the dead, receive compensation from the state.
Ole Kristian lost his father at the age of three in the Alexander Kielland accident. Now the survivors have been heard.
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