Grønholmen est une île dans le landskap Sunnhordland du comté de Vestland. Elle appartient administrativement à Lindås.
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Lindås Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lindås. It is one of the three churches for the Lindås parish which is part of the Nordhordland prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden, neo-Gothic church was built in a long church design in 1865 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Syslak. The church seats about 370 people.
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Lindås is a village in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the Lindås peninsula, about 25 kilometres north of the village of Knarvik and about 10 kilometres southeast of the Mongstad industrial area. The village of Hundvin lies about 8 kilometres southeast of Lindås. Lindås Church is located in the village.
The 1.07-square-kilometre village has a population of 1,448 and a population density of 1,353 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Fensfjorden is a fjord in Vestland county, Norway. The 30-kilometre long fjord begins in the North Sea at Holmengrå Lighthouse and flows to the southeast through the municipalities of Austrheim, Gulen, Alver, and Masfjorden. The fjord ends on the Masfjorden-Alver border where it splits into two fjords: Masfjorden and Austfjorden.
The fjord is generally about 3 to 5 kilometres wide. There is only one crossing: a car ferry from Sløvåg in Gulen Municipality to Mongstad in Alver Municipality. The islands of Byrknesøyna, Mjømna, and Sandøyna lie on the northern side of the fjord. The south side of the fjord includes the island of Fosøyna and the Lindås peninsula lie on the south side of the fjord.
There is a lot of ship traffic in the outer part of the Fensfjorden due to the large oil refinery and industrial area at Mongstad on the northern end of the Lindås peninsula. Mongstad is Norway's largest port based on tonnage, and Northern Europe's largest oil port. Roughly 2000 ships port at Mongstad in the Fensfjorden annually.
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Luro or Lygra is an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The 2.5-square-kilometre island sits in the Lurefjorden which cuts into the Lindås peninsula. There is one road on the island that continues over a short bridge onto the mainland. The bridge was built in 1972. The island has been the site of Lygra Church since the Middle Ages. There are Viking Age tombstones that are still standing on the island. The Heathland Centre is located on Lygra. It is an information centre about the cultural landscape in this coastal area. There are nearly 200 hectares of heathland that are managed in traditional ways by local farmers.
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Mongstad Power Station is a natural gas-fired combined power plant and heating plant located at the industrial site of Mongstad in Norway.
The station is owned by a consortium of Equinor and Ørsted A/S, and was operated by the latter, but in 2013 Ørsted divested their share, selling it to Statoil. Construction costs are estimated at NOK 4 billion.
The power station will have an installed effect of 280 MW in electricity production and 350 MW in heat. The energy will be used to operate the Mongstad Refinery as well to supply the Troll Gas Field with power. The plant will use 0.7 billion normal cubic meter of gas per year. Emissions of carbon dioxide will be 1.2 million tonnes.
The power station has been subject to controversy in Norway, based upon the potential increase in emission of greenhouse gases.
The closure of the plant has been postponed several times. The plant was supposed to be closed at the end of 2018, but was still in operation as of 2021.