When Climate Minister Dan Jørgensen gave the green light to build a gas pipeline on Lolland-Falster to the sugar factory Nordic Sugar, the country's second largest CO2 emitter, it was reported that another 15-25 companies would also like to be connected to the pipeline.
In reality, a non-binding declaration was signed to receive a good offer. Now the Ministry of Climate is being criticized for misleading in the matter. This is reported by Jyllands-Posten.
The Radicals' climate spokesman, Rasmus Helveg Petersen, calls it "a strange and woolly process".
- I don't understand the need to inflate those numbers. It doesn't sound like it's appropriate, he tells Jyllands-Posten.
The Unity Party is attacking the minister for embellishing reality.
- It is deeply reprehensible. One thing is that he wants to help a large company and wants to say that there are jobs in it. It is another thing to come up with more arguments and come up with figures that are not correct, says climate rapporteur Søren Egge Rasmussen (EL).
Jyllands-Posten has asked Dan Jørgensen whether he believes it is fair to use 15-25 companies as an argument for establishing the gas pipeline. In an email he does not answer this, but writes in his response:
"The decision about the gas pipeline was made to give all companies on Lolland and Falster the same opportunities to connect to the gas grid as companies in virtually the rest of the country and at the same time ensure continued employment in the peripheral areas of Denmark."
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