– I am not hoping to disclaim obligation, suggests Borten Moe.
He was a minister and ten years ago he gave the inexperienced light-weight to the building of electrical cables for Germany and England.
Then all parts of the Storting believed that the cables had to be developed. Decisive had been the calculations by Statnett and Sintef, which confirmed that the value of energy would rise by an ordinary of 3-4 øre.
– It appeared to me a realistic selling price to fork out for bigger security of offer. As you know, our energy program is really dependent on weather circumstances. Now, however, we have received severe rates and there is serious dialogue about electrical energy rationing, she says.
“Shit inside of, shit out”
Borten Moe described the system of generating the choice dependent on the calculations as “shit inside of, shit” in Dagsnytt 18 in July.
Borten Moe’s statement sparked discussion as to irrespective of whether the calculations have been appropriate, but also whether he shirks political duty for the cables.
Social gathering leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum explained in the debate Thursday that the description of the foundation of the conclusion as miserable “is Ola’s phrases.”
Previous Statnett chairman Kolbjørn Almlid spoke Handle Saturday that Borten Moe takes down.
Surprised is also the gentleman who tried to persuade Borten Moe to abandon cables 10 a long time back, Leif Sande. He spoke for the foundry business as shop steward for Industri Energi.
– This was the eyesight of the Heart Social gathering. That he enable Statnett fool him, I certainly never believe that it. I imagine it was a really conscious policy they had, he tells NRK.
Leif Sande is a former business clerk and parliamentary representative of the Labor Get together. He went from his have party in the combat in opposition to overseas cables in England and Germany.
Photo: Torstein Georg Bøe / NRK
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– Acknowledge self-criticism more than willingly
Sande believes that politicians who acquire calculations from experts should consider into account that the answers do not arrive from a fortune teller ball and must listen to arguments to the contrary.
– It is as if it ended up determined that the rate of oil in 2025 should really be $ 100 a barrel. There is no 1 who can do it. These are variable things, claims Sande.
Borten Moes suggests he agrees with Sande, but that his practical experience is that politicians connect excellent worth to potential predictions when decisions are built.
– There may well be cause to mirror on this in common, and certainly in this situation in specific. I am more than satisfied to take the self-criticism for not staying crucial plenty of, on the other hand the suggestions were apparent, he states.
Borten Moe agrees that no one could have foreseen the vitality disaster Europe is struggling with following Russia entered the war towards Ukraine.
– But the structural changes that have even so pushed up energy rates and lessen the security of provides in the European energy industry took put thanks to conscious options, in particular in Germany and Great Britain.
Disagreement on German energy plan
International locations are in the system of shutting down nuclear electric power vegetation. Borten Moe significantly reacts to the reality that Germany plans to near the country’s previous three vegetation this winter season, which it can increase the price tag of energy in southern Norway.
– You are not able to shut down all the things you do not like with no having a superior approach on what to exchange it, and even now not dump the consequences on the neighbor, he suggests.
Borten Moe claims ten decades back he assumed that the British and Germans needed effectively-working marketplaces that would be in a position to ship electrical power to Norway.
– In retrospect, it need to be feasible to build that none of these labored. It is generally about exports, and it is to a current market in crisis.
Borten Moe himself supported the abandonment of the advancement of 3 other foreign cables dread of additional high-priced electrical power: In Scotland, Russia and Sweden.
– I was in all probability the Key Minister of Electrical power who problematized the outcomes of the too much trade of electricity. It also had an influence on functional plan.
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