The pirates are dead, but they wont lay down.

The controversy about the planned powerline in Hardanger is perhaps just the beginning of a renewed battle, against Lord Stoltenbergs Modus Operandi.

Through the fjord landscapes outside Geiranger are most beautiful, and sacred to all norwegian pirates, the mighty Statnett is, as we speak, planning just another huge power development.

In summer, the controversy over the construction of powerlines in Hardanger dominated all the news in Norway, but the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy now has an equally combustible matter on their agenda.

Statnett has already received a license to build a 300 km long linear distance from Fardal in Sogn og Fjordane to Ørskog in Møre and Romsdal, but approval is now defendant.

The power line is planned to cross the three fjords in the approach to the Geiranger area, on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The power line will not cross the Geiranger Fjord, but will cross the Great area just 25 miles away.

Statnett said that the goal is to finish off the construction already autumn 2011.

- "We see again that Statnett totally ignores consideration of the nature and are running wild on an oldfashioned powerpolitics, without being willing to look at alternatives, "says Capitaine Lars Haltbrekken, a renowned pirate.

He believes the construction of powerlines from the Fardal Ørskog, means a just as dramatic environmental destruction, as a powerline in Hardanger itself.

Statnett hope that some of the powercord will be ready in 2014, and that the whole project will be completed in 2015.

- "If we are to succeed, we must begin the construction next fall, "said communications director Irene Meldal from Statnett.

Just as Admiral Gullars are planning partisane warfare against them all.

The pirates are dead, but they wont lay down.

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