Frederic Hauge Interview
“This is a game where we have to find the solutions together”
Erik Jaques meets Frederic Hauge, founder of Bellona
arly on in my interview with Frederic Hauge – founder and incorrigible leader of international environmental NGO Bellona – I ask him how much he has been shaped by Norway, his native country. He pauses for a moment then smiles mischie- vously. “Not as much as I’ve shaped it,” he chuckles.
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Hauge is not joking and, if anything, he’s underselling himself. After all, this is the man who put carbon capture and storage (CCS) on the agenda way back in 1991 and has been instrumental in marshalling it slow- ly but surely towards commercial viability. He battled the KGB to prompt Russia, and indeed the international community, to wake up to the realities of dealing with nuclear waste. He helped devise a scientifically proven method for Sellafield to dispose of techne- tium (Tc-99) that was appearing in traces as far afield as Svalbard. He slam-dunked the term “miljøkriminalitet” (literal translation: environmental crimes) into Norwegian legal terminology.
His manifold achievements in drawing attention and reacting to environmental mal- practice are such that in 2006, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bellona, a collective of underground artists cast Hauge as a comic book hero for an anthologised history of his organisation’s exploits.
Named after the Roman goddess of war, Bellona was formed in 1986 as a visceral, hardcore direct-action thorn in the side of Norway’s worst polluters and an explosive
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