Red wants to ban billionaires flying to their cabins by private jet, writes The online newspaper.
The proposal is for a ban on using private aircraft for transport that is not justified in life health and safety.
– Pisslei
Deputy leader of Rødt, Marie Sneve Martinussen, believes that the rich elite must take responsibility for large parts of the emissions we have today, and that they must then take responsibility for cutting emissions to a much greater extent than other people.
– Now I’m pissed that there is always talk of volunteer work and that everyone must contribute. It is the richest who pollute the most, and they must take the bill when greenhouse gas emissions go down, says Martinussen.
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The background for the blowout is the UN’s new climate report, which came out earlier this week.
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“It is clear that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, oceans and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, the ocean, the cryosphere and the biosphere have taken place “, the report stated.
The UN Climate Panel concludes that already in the 2030s we can experience years of 1.5 degree warming. This will lead to both more frequent and stronger extreme weather, which means more heat waves, torrential rain and drought.
And with the report in mind, the Red politician believes that there are some habits Norwegian rich people only have to give up at once.
– The billionaires Stein Erik Hagen and Erik Bøhler use private planes to go from Oslo to their cabins in Kragerø. They just have to stop, says Martinussen.
FLIGHT: It must be this plane that annoys the neighbors. Photo: Markus Toften
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Flying noise
The reason why Martinussen points out Hagen and Bøhler comes from earlier this summer. Then had Telemark newspaper an article about the two business partners’ new seaplanes being a nuisance to some of the neighbors, who thought it was very noisy.
Bøhler promised redress and improvement, and said that they had had training of the pilots, which had contributed to some more traffic than usual.
The other person who uses the plane is Stein Erik Hagen. To Børsen, he says that he thinks it is very exaggerated how much they use the plane to and from the cabin.
– I have had four trips this year, and then I have had guests three times. I have used the plane seven times from the month of May until now, says Hagen.
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He also adds that his children have used the seaplane, but that it has in no way gone in shuttle traffic up and down.
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– There are several seaplanes here in the area, so it may well be that they think that all planes that go over here go to me, Hagen says.
The proposal to Rødt, to ban the use of private planes to fly to the cabin, Hagen takes with crushing calm.
– Red probably has a support of around five percent. This means that 95 percent do not agree with them, says Hagen.
– But what do you think about the fact that Rødt thinks you who have a lot must take extra environmental responsibility?
– I have previously used a helicopter for the cabin, but I have sold it and now we have bought this seaplane, which is more environmentally friendly. We do a lot to reduce emissions and do a lot of different things around to reduce the carbon footprint, says Hagen, and adds:
– The seaplane does not go up and down to the cabin. It is mostly used in business and industry to contribute to value creation.
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Bought luxury aircraft
In 2019, the magazine Kapital also wrote that Hagen, through the company Aviation Invest, which was established by Hagen’s family company Canica, bought the luxury aircraft Gulfstream G280 for NOK 200 million.
The special thing about the aircraft is that it is new and modern with energy-efficient engines and low emissions.
– The aircraft is specially adapted to the use of biofuels and earlier this year set a record in long-haul flights with biofuels. The use of biofuels significantly reduces the climate footprint, said Canica’s CEO, Nils Selte.
The garden itself has salt in the porridge – and well then. According to the magazine Kapital’s overview of Norway’s 400 richest people, Hagen is worth NOK 33 billion – which ensures him a pleasant seventh place on the list.
During the corona pandemic, things have also gone so well with the grocery giant Orkla, where Hagen is the largest owner.
The operating profit for 2020 ended at 5.5 billion, up 7.9 percent from the previous year. Orkla’s Board of Directors thus proposed to increase the dividend for the financial year by NOK 0.15 to NOK 2.75 per share.
According to E24, this ensured the shareholders a dividend of a total of NOK 2.75 billion. Just over half a billion of these go to the company’s largest shareholder, which is Stein Erik Hagen’s family company Canica.
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