(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
In the midst of the noise from preparations for the Crown Prince's wedding and politicians' attempts to outdo each other with promises of tax cuts, the following message comes from the organization The Future in Our Hands (FIVH): When considering the budget for 2001, all parties significantly reduced environmental efforts at the Storting. large tax cuts on fossil fuels.
The unfortunate development for the environment also includes a reduction in the CO2 tax on the Norwegian shelf, the organization says. And hold your breath, SV members who read Ny Tid: Even a traditional environmental party like SV was to some extent involved in the cuts.
This can be read in FIVH's report "On party with the environment?", Which was published this week. The organization has examined the various parties' appropriation proposals for environmental issues in the state budget, not only for the current year, but throughout the last parliamentary term.
That the Right turns away from the intermediate parties in the environmental cases at the Storting, and that the Center Party and the Left's ambitions to be environmental parties have been significantly diminished in recent years, we shall leave in this round. But that SV's environmental advantage over the other parties is about to disappear should worry anyone and everyone. This is the FIVH report's verdict on the party:
SV shows a steadily declining willingness to prioritize environmental considerations in the state budget. Measured in average placement proposals, the distance to the intermediate parties and the Ap is halved during the last parliamentary period. The shrinking distance is not primarily due to failing wills in individual cases, but consistently lower budgetary proposals for most environmental issues. If individual cases are to be pointed out, it can be mentioned that SV no longer wants lower national highway investments for the sake of the environment, nor a higher gasoline tax.
What's up, SV? Are the climate's climate problems solved? Isn't that dangerous to the environment anymore? Or has the oil adventure and growth mentality also gone to the head of Kristin Halvorsen and her party mates?
If someone can rightly call themselves an environmental party, the least you can expect is that the party will go in to increase the allocations to the environment.
Don't sell it out for cheap sales.
