FRP leader Sylvi Listhaug calls on Norwegian politicians to stop blaming the war in Ukraine for the energy crisis. But he gets a response to the accusation from Guri Melby of Venstre.
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The Minister of Oil and Energy Terje Aasland (Ap) immediately received a response from the leader of the FRP Sylvi Listhaug his statement Monday on the government power plan.
He speaks harshly against the parties he believes are responsible for the war in Ukraine to explain the energy crisis.
– Stop blaming the war in Ukraine. These problems started before the war. Already last summer, energy prices increased significantly, says Listhaug.
He believes that individuals and businesses receive too little support from a state that he believes is getting rich from high prices for oil, gas and electricity.
– I’d say the majority in this room are about to
it has fundamentally failed in the face of what could be the greatest true economic crisis for many, many decades, he says.
Liberal leader Guri Melby stressed from the podium that Russia’s economic warfare began before the invasion.
– It is war, and last but not least the gas weapon that Vladimir Putin used against our continent, combined with extreme drought, means we have an electrical crisis, says Melby.
He strongly disagrees with Listhaug:
– Listhaug used the point that prices already went up last summer as some sort of argument that this has nothing to do with the war, says Melby.
– But it was precisely at that moment that Putin started cutting off gas access to Europe, which caused prices to rise, he adds.
Defining the energy crisis “hybrid war”
Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg says in her post that we need to strengthen the balance of power in Norway and build more power, without forgetting who is behind it.
It directly points to the war of Russian President Vladimir Putin against Ukraine.
– What is important now is that we do not let the war economy affect people and their jobs too much. The huge incomes the state and county council have now should benefit people, Solberg says and adds:
– Only in this way can we equally distribute the weight of the Russian hybrid war.
He believes that all opposition proposals should be sent to the Energy Committee for consideration.
– No easy fixes
The opposition parties in the Storting have submitted a total of 93 proposals during today’s power meeting at Storting.
The Conservative Party warns against voting on the proposals today and will send them to the Energy Committee for consideration – the Labor Party wants to do so too.
Labor party parliamentary leader Rigmor Aasrud says Norway needs to develop more power. The parliamentary leader of SP, Marit Arnstad, says that the proposals of the opposition parties have spread in all directions.
– There are no simple solutions, says Aasrud.
– We cannot pay to get out of the crisis in the long term. We need to build our way out of the crisis, he adds.
The government warns
VG wrote it on Monday the government plans to go directly to its preferred partner, SV, to negotiate further support for electricity, and that there isn’t much else to do.
SV wants one new electric support for families. During his statement to Storting, Aasland said the government will address the issue of increasing electricity support for households to 90%, as previously announced, in order to file a case with Storting on September 30.
Asland he warned in his report against too simple solutions.
– I would like to warn against the solutions that some have come up with where a low price of electricity is adopted as a solution to a situation of low fill and lack of energy in Europe. When lack of energy is the problem, there is no point in deciding that we have enough.
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