If Norway stopped producing oil and gas, this would jeopardize the European energy transition, the country’s new prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, told the Financial Times in his first interview after taking office. “If we were to say from one day to the other that we close down production from the Norwegian shelf, I believe that would put a stop to an industrial transition that is needed to succeed in the momentum towards net zero . . . So we are about to develop and transit, not close down,” Gahr Store said. Gahr Store’s Labour Party won the elections in Norway last month, beating the outgoing Conservatives, but it failed to secure a majority in Parliament and had to form a coalition with the Centre Party. Gahr Stoere said ahead of the elections in September: “I believe that calling time on our oil and gas industry is the wrong […]