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The recently introduced legislation aims to facilitate the export of energy used to heat and illuminate houses in the United States and worldwide.
The “unlocking of our National Potential Law of 2025 ” would grant” exclusive authority “to sign the requests for imports and exports of Liquefied Natural Gas (GNL) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, away from the Department of Energy.
The Biden Administration stopped eliminating LNG export requests and conducted a study in December warning of possible long -term cost risks, as well as environmental concerns, according to Reuters.
President Donald Trump speaking at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana, in 2019. (Scott Clause/USA Today)
However, the Republican Senator of South Carolina, Tim Scott, the sponsor of the Senate of the bill, told Fox News Digital that it is fundamental for several reasons, including national security.
“If you want your prices to fall, your production has to climb,” Scott said.
“I remember that I returned to 2014 when I was still in the Energy Committee (…) we had the Minister of Energy of Lithuania before our committee and talk about the export of LNG as a way of neglecting Russia and reducing our dependence on adversaries,” he added. “I will never forget that audition when I was there, I really got caught with me.”
Texas Republican representative, August Pfluger, the sponsor of the Chamber of Representatives of the Legislation, shared the possible long -term benefits “will greatly affect” its central and western district of Texas, as the State “is the main exporter of GNL in the United States.”
“This bill will support thousands of new jobs in Texas, from construction and engineering to operations in export terminals throughout the Gulf. In addition, it will give natural gas producers in Texas a more competitive advantage in international markets, ensuring that Texas remains a global energy leader,” he said.
The Trump administration seems to be excited about the possibility of expanding LNG efforts nationwide, such as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and energy secretary Chris Wright Both visited an installation In Louisiana last week in the middle of an investment of $ 18 million of its owner, Global Venture. Currently, the United States leads the world in the creation of natural gas, according to the Department of Energy.
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Accompanied by tugs, the LNG Truck “Hella Diana” transports a LNG load to the energy terminal “Deutsche Ostsee” on August 28, 2024. (Photo: Stefan Sauer/DPA/SIPA USA)
“If you think about the strategy of America First, the simple response is a last strategy of the United States depending on foreign adversaries for our energy, either LNG, oil, gas, whatever. Therefore, the more we do it in the United States to increase our production, we participate in the Energy America Fick strategy,” he said.
The legislation is intended to be a long -term measure to make it more difficult for the policies of a specific administration to determine which permits are approved.
However, Scott noticed in the short term that “having President Trump in office is the most effective weapon.”
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You can see a written tank with “On The Move for You: GNG By Rail” before loading in the port of Elbehafen in Brunsbuettel, Germany, on April 25, 2016. (Bodo Marks/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
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“Our goal, of course, is to ensure that in the future, no matter who is in office, that we have something that has the production to Ferc and, hopefully, avoid the disaster we saw under the Biden administration, its ability to manipulate the department of energy,” Scott added.
Last year, the legislation under the same title approved the Chamber but did not reach The desk of former President Joe Biden.