Showing once again that the Greens are among the most frenetic war-mongers, a Green Party Norwegian lawmaker has urged officials to share the country’s soaring gas profits with Ukraine, saying it would be “morally wrong” to gain from the military conflict raging in Eastern Europe. The government, however, insists its top priority is to boost output as other EU states look to curtail Russian energy imports.
Former Green Party spokesman and current MP Rasmus Hansson has floated a profit-sharing scheme to convert gas revenues into foreign aid for Ukraine, telling Politico that “Norway is being short-sighted and too selfish.”
“We are getting a windfall profit which is very big, but the question is: does that money belong to us as long as the most obvious reason for that price increase and that extra income is the disaster that has befallen the Ukrainian people?” he added, referring to the ongoing conflict with Russia. Hansson said experts with Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, which manages state energy profits, must determine a “normal” gas price, and that all earnings above that level should be donated to a “solidarity fund” for postwar rebuilding efforts in Ukraine.
After taking Russia’s spot as Europe’s top gas exporter, the government has come under fire from other nations, with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stating it should share the “gigantic” profits made during wartime. More recently, a Spanish environmental minister said Norway’s high-price sales were “disturbing.”
