Dan Jørgensen

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The Rest Is Politics · 547. The Truth About Russian Oil, Net Zero, and North Sea Drilling · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

So it is quite serious and we're not out of the woods yet.

But of course, if there is a peace, then the situation is more manageable than it would have been.

Yeah, so maybe let's start with Russia.

We were indeed extremely dependent on Russian energy.

I served as minister for climate, energy and public utilities in Denmark in February 22 when Putin made his full-scale invasion in Ukraine.

And I remember how we spent the first weeks making emergency plans for what we would do if indeed Putin decided to turn off the taps for us.

And we would have had to force companies to close down, send people in uniform if they didn't, to make sure that we had enough gas to our hospitals and so forth.

And this was in Denmark, and we were not even half as exposed as a country like Germany, for instance.

So imagine if Putin had turned off the gas to Germany, the entire Europe would have been in an economic recession, right?

So that showed us just how vulnerable we were.

And therefore, we decided, of course, to get out of this dependency as fast as possible.

It wasn't only gas, by the way.

We got 50% of our coal from Russia.

That's down to zero now.

We got 27% of our oil.

That's down to 3% now.

And we got 45% of our gas.

And that is down to around 10% now.

And we've decided...

that it needs to go down to zero.

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