Nasjonal rassikringsgruppe

Protection ensures safety for both lives and businesses

Norwegian Natural Hazards Group works purposefully to make travel on national and county roads in Norway safer. Our mandate is to put landslide and avalanche safety issues on the political agenda and increase funding for protection measures. We aim for faster implementation of safety measures and believe that technology and alternative solutions can make Norway safer in a more cost-effective and sustainable way.

For the benefit of business and community development in our country.

Background: The group was founded by representatives from areas exposed to landslides and snowslides in Norway, who recognized the urgent need for a united effort in addressing these issues.

Facts about an rockslide and avalanche-prone Norway

With the current state funding rate, it will take us at least 70 years to secure the most dangerous stretches of national and county roads.

In a comprehensive report by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in 2023, a need of over 96 billion Norwegian kroner was identified for landslide and avalanche protection on the most hazardous national and county road sections in Norway, with the requirement for county roads amounting to 61 billion and national roads to 35 billion.

The fear and insecurity

In Norway, many people live in fear of sending their children to daycare and school along landslide and avalanche-prone road stretches. They fear commuting past areas susceptible to landslides and avalanche. Safe roads should be a prioritized task—not an extra service.

Climate change, with milder temperatures, increased precipitation, and extreme weather, contributes to greater landslide and avalanche risk and uncertainty for the population. Businesses face unpredictable deliveries and significant losses due to long-term road closures caused by landslides/avalanches or the risk thereof.

Establishing new businesses in locations dependent on landslide and avalanche-prone road sections is less attractive—even if the overall location is excellent. Recruiting a workforce for established companies in prone areas is more challenging than elsewhere in the country.

We cannot afford to neglect ensuring safe and accessible roads in Norway. We cannot afford to lose anyone.

A need of 96 billion kroner

With the current state funding rate, it will take us at least 70 years to secure the most dangerous stretches of national and county roads.

Norwegian Natural Hazards Group

Randi Walderhaug Frisvoll (Møre og Romsdal)

Leader of NNHG and County Council representative
Phone: +47 950 67 335
Email: Randi.w.frisvoll@gmail.com

Marius Chramer

Secretary
Phone: +47 958 16 737
Email: marius.chramer@tromsfylke.no

Marianne Dobak Kvensjø (Nordland)

Vice leader of NNHG and County Councillor of Transport
Phone: + 47 934 277 86
Email: markve@nfk.no

Board:

Kjetil Romsdal (Finnmark) – Kjetil.romsdal@outlook.com, + 47 414 012 48
Mari Siljebråten (Troms) mari.siljebraaten@gmail.com
Pål Sæther Eiden (Trøndelag) palei@trondelagfylke.no
Iselin Vistekleiven (Innlandet) isevis@innlandetfylke.no
Silje Karin Teig (Rogaland) silje.karin.teig@rogfk.no,tlf. + 47 954 406 52
Jon Askeland (Vestland) – jon.askeland@vlfk.no, tlf. + 47 474 597 20

Technology, goal achievement and cost-saving potential

The landslide and avalanche protection needs in Norway are now so underfunded and immense that a financial escalation plan must be put in place quickly.

Norwegian Natural Hazards Group aims to highlight how technological opportunities and alternative protection methods—where appropriate—can lead to faster goal achievement and more effective protection for the money.