TV 2 invites the party leaders to a debate just five days before the municipal and county council elections on 11 September. At the Deichman library in Bjørvika in Oslo, they will convince voters that their policy is the best in the year’s most important issues. In tonight’s debate, the climate and school are central themes. The party leaders must also answer questions from the viewers. The first person to have to answer for himself about the climate is Center Party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. – We must have a practical and down-to-earth climate policy that does not send the bill to people. We will take measures that do not increase the price of electricity, but that create jobs, says Vedum when asked about the electrification of Melkøya. Trygve Slagsvold Vedum and Erna Solberg warmed up to the debate with a little dance. Photo: news Nyheter ENG5 Regarding the electrification of Melkøya, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap) answers: – Electrification is right for cutting emissions. Many in Finnmark are in favor of this, says Støre, who says the project will extend the life of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea and at the same time ensure Finnmark has enough electricity for new industrial projects. – In addition, it has a security policy dimension, said Støre. Showed letter SP leader Vedum had a letter with him which he showed to Frp leader Sylvi Listhaug. – Can I show this letter? Here is a letter that was sent when the FRP had the oil and energy minister. You stopped electrification and said “go”, says Vedum. – It was signed in autumn 2019. It is so hollow to hear the argument. There are big words and empty promises, we have to stand up for the decisions we have made. Vedum wanted Listhaug’s thoughts on this letter from 2019. Photo: Emilie Holtet / NTB The letter Vedum refers to, which news has seen, is dated 8 October 2019. It urges Statnett to take a number of steps before the issue of electrifying Melkøya could is processed. Frp and Sylvi Listhaug will now stop the entire project. – We asked the Prime Minister to make an assessment. We clearly stated that we were against it. We have put forward repeated proposals in the Storting to stop electrification, says Listhaug. Rødt leader Marie Sneve Martinussen accuses the FRP of having the least credibility on the issue of electrification and power policy. – The FRP has one party program in position and one in opposition, said the Rødt leader. Compares with smoking cessation Arild Hermstad and the MDG was initially for electrification of Melkøya, but has reversed. – What exactly is electrification of the oil? Yes, it is to extend the oil age, says Hermstad. He compares the electrification of Melkøya to starting to smoke filter cigarettes when you want to quit rolling tobacco. – We have to say no to oil and gas, and yes to the renewable industries, says Hermstad. Listhaug stays on the smoking trail: – So in the end it is tempting to ask MDG: What have you been smoking? If you haven’t learned yet, that the oil industry is incredibly important in security policy, for working life and for the income of the country? Krf leader Olaug Bollestad wants to focus on capturing and storing CO2, rather than electrification. She fears it is the people who will have to foot the bill. – The government sends the bill to people in the north, not to Equinor, says Bollestad. – Reminiscent of the internal remission At the same time, Vedum comes with a sigh of relief against what he calls “climate moralism”: – It reminds me a little of the internal remission in the 50s. Condemnation, condemnation, condemnation. That everything is going to go to hell. It doesn’t. We must get rid of the debate that has been going on in recent years, about meat shame or flight shame or car shame. We have to get back to practical and good politics, says Vedum, before presenter Yvonne Fondenes wants him back on the Melkøya track. Party leader in the Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, will together with the other party leaders accept questions from the viewers. Photo: Emilie Holtet / NTB
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Meeting for party leader debate five days before the election – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country
