Cheers for Jensen oljeambisjoner – Bergens Tidende

Progress Party leader Siv Jensen stressed the ambition of oil and gas exploration off Lofoten and Vesterålen.

– We should not fall environmental elite doomsday prophecy, which predicts imminent doom every year. Loosing, the climate challenge lies not in self-flagellation, svartsyn and negativity. In the choice between trusting Eldar Sætre and Rasmus Hansson, so I’m not in doubt about who knows most about how confident Norwegian oil production, said Jensen – referring respectively to Statoil chief and the Green Party spokesperson.

– the world needs every drop of the oil Norway control, because the world then you get access to more clean, Norwegian energy instead of coal. Therefore, we continue to look and extracting oil and gas from new areas, stressed FRP leader.

– The oil should be up, not away, she declared.

Ten years manager

Jensen were welcomed with a long, standing ovation as she walked to the pulpit Saturday morning and recalled the ten years she has so far received as party leader.

– thank you for ten wonderful years with you, said Jensen and thanked both Per Sandberg, who has been deputy as long, and 2 deputy Ketil Solvik-Olsen.

the party leader noted political breakthrough in elderly care, cancer treatment, plus tax and tax breaks .

Also in the future tax cuts be important to provide businesses and entrepreneurs the opportunity to grow.

Labour’s plan is the wrong medicine, claimed she and came with a greeting to the party leader Jonas Gahr Støre:

– Dear Jonas, increased taxes are vision resolved. It will weaken firms – do they hire more, she said.

Jensen took particularly into the growing unemployment in the oil industry in western Norway.

– Those who lose their jobs need politicians who takes hold. For our task is to make fewer lose their jobs, we must create new jobs and create new taxpayers. That’s the future, said Jensen.

Notifications radical changes

Defence policy is expected to become one of the major themes of the Progress Party congress at Gardermoen at the weekend and it was central to the party leader’s speech Saturday .

– Progress will strengthen the Norwegian Armed Forces, which has been unacceptably scaled back year after year under various governments before us. It is not time to take defense policy breather, she said.

But FRP leader and finance minister also used the speech to warn that new technologies will provide new and different jobs.

– Progress is not the end of something good, but the start of something better, she says

New technologies challenge the established and leads to people trying to protect old jobs, she pointed out, referring to the steam engine, the cassette player and mobile phone as examples of changes that have occurred throughout history. But development has created new jobs and improved living standards, she claims.

– The development can not be stopped by them, they and politicians.

Progress will during the weekend select a new program committee, who will lead efforts to create a new party program for the next parliamentary term.

– Our project for a better Norway is not finished in 2017. it is now the beginning, declared party leader. (NTB)