Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan says that, while President Joe Biden has made a poor choice for America in freezing permits for liquified natural gas, the Alaska LNG project already has its permits for its project from the North Slope to tidewater in Nikiski.
“Once again, President Biden has caved to far-left extremists, choosing politics over the actual climate science, gutting the American workforce, and putting America’s national security and our allies at risk,” Sen. Sullivan said. “When America exports clean-burning natural gas, global emissions go down and our allies can get off Russian gas. These are facts.
“Fortunately, the Alaska LNG project already received all of its export permits and remains a viable source of clean-burning energy for America and our allies,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan and 25 of his Senate colleagues sent a letter today to President Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm blasting the pause.
In the letter, the senators said, “Without U.S. LNG exports, European leaders would have to decide between depriving their own citizens of energy or actively funding Russia’s war on Ukraine. Moreover, in December 2023, Russia exported LNG at record levels. Russia is also in the process of dramatically expanding its future LNG export capacity.”
Iran-backed forces have provoked war in the Middle East and are threatening shipping lanes through which LNG is shipped to Europe and Asia, the senators said. At the same time, Iran is seeking to benefit from the war by ramping its own domestic LNG exports to displace the very supplies it helped to disrupt.
“Limiting U.S. LNG exports does not have any impact on the world’s demand for natural gas. Instead, countries including Russia and Iran will simply produce more energy that is subject to less stringent environmental regulations. As a result, limiting American LNG exports in the name of stopping climate change could do just the opposite and add to global emissions,” they wrote.
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