Several associations are predicted to take oljekampen in LO – Vesterålen Online

LO has long been a champion for the Norwegian oil and gas production.

In the congress for four years since the collected LINT that the organization “will work for the commissioning of impact assessments in the closed and unopened parts of the Barents sea, the Norwegian sea and Skagerak”.

I stand, of course, on the decision from the last LO congress. Just this decision I think is also a good and balanced decision that takes up into himself the various interests, writing LO leader Gerd Kristiansen of the Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen.

But now it breaks the trade union, it is by far the biggest involved in the LO, completely with this point in the current handlingsprogrammet. In its recommendations to next year’s LO-congress, they have delivered a proposal that breaks with oljelinjen and to protect vulnerable areas, writes VG.

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– To take treaty on climate change seriously

Forbundsleder Mette Nord confirms to the newspaper that the vulnerable areas in question, are the Lofoten and Vesterålen and Senja.

– Yes, we shall take Parisavtalen seriously, then we must actually do something also here in Norway. We have fixed the protection of river systems in Norway, and I think we must dare to take such a principled debate on the congress, ” says North.

the Proposal also gets support from two of the larger unions are in the FLUFF: Trade and Office and the El and It-associated, writes the Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper to the congress of Commerce and the Office of the Wednesday vote on whether they support the setting to safeguard the high north.

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Associations from

trade unions are, however, not in line with the trade union.

– We are also keen to take klimaansvar, but we are very hard on the that it is important to collect knowledge, so that we know what we are going to take the position. Therefore, it is important that the impact assessment for Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, says forbundsleder Jørn Eggum to VG.

It is also not Industry Energy.

We stand on that it is important to konsekvensutrede Lofoten and Vesterålen, because it is important for jobs and the Norwegian income. Previously, the trade union argued for the protection of fish and danger of emissions. Now they come with climate. It will not help the climate, anything: If Norway put its oil and gas production, it will not give any klimaeffekt, because the demand is there and the other will deliver, ” says forbundsleder Leif Sande told the paper.