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Energy Secretary tells House committee that LNG export permit pause will be over by early 2025
Just the News ^ | 24 May, 2024 | Kevin Killough

Posted on 05/25/2024 5:48:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

During the hearing, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee grilled Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the administration’s “war on energy.”.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told a House Oversight Committee Thursday that the pause on liquified natural gas (LNG) export permits would be rescinded by the first quarter of 2025. The statement was made in response to questions from Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., during a hearing.

In January, the Biden administration had announced a pause on export permits of LNG to countries without a free trade agreement with the U.S., which includes European nations. The pause was to do a review of the permits to determine if they are in the public interest. The permit applications are reviewed by the Department of Energy, and the pause impacted only new applications.

Higgins wanted to know if the Department of Energy had yet determined if new export permits were in the public interest.

“We’re in the middle of a study and updating our assessment of what is in the public interest,” Granholm answered, which would be complete in the first quarter of 2025.

“Would that be a no?” Higgins replied.

Granholm disputed the characterization of the pause as a ban, as Higgins and other committee members called it. The pause, she said, has no impact on exports that are happening now, she said. “There is no cut off. We have to do an assessment of what's in the public interest given the huge amounts that we have authorized so far,” Granholm explained.

Critics, however, have argued that the policy decision, even if it lasts only a year, still has environmental and economic impacts, including scaring off investors with regulatory uncertainty.

War on Energy

During the hearing, Republicans on the committee grilled Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about the administration’s “war on energy.”

“We will not stand by solidly as the Biden administration subverts America's energy independence and demonizes this critical industry,” Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said.

Democrats on the committee, as well as Granholm, denied that the Biden administration was doing anything to impede American energy production, citing the administration’s clean energy policies.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: energy; lng
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1 posted on 05/25/2024 5:48:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Control of the means of production.


2 posted on 05/25/2024 5:48:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

“be rescinded by the first quarter of 2025”
LOL! Oh yes it will!


3 posted on 05/25/2024 5:53:26 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: MtnClimber
“We’re in the middle of a study and updating our assessment of what is in the public interest,”

Granholm doesn't already know? Makin' it up as ya goooo...

4 posted on 05/25/2024 5:54:05 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

The LNG export pause was done to punish Texas for their border enforcement.


5 posted on 05/25/2024 5:55:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
Democrats on the committee, as well as Granholm, denied that the Biden administration was doing anything to impede American energy production,

Oh, how nice. They'll let you produce energy; they just won't let you sell it.

6 posted on 05/25/2024 5:56:18 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hoping to bring heating costs down before the election?


7 posted on 05/25/2024 6:23:56 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: MtnClimber

She is a genuinely stupid person!

So fitting for the Biden Administration.


8 posted on 05/25/2024 6:28:23 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: MtnClimber

When President Trump wins again this fall and takes office next year, he really needs to put an immediate pause on all wind turbine and solar farms for environmental reassessment. Both are damaging wildlife and land. It needs be a comprehensive analysis which could take several years.


9 posted on 05/25/2024 6:28:39 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Colorado Doug

“Hoping to bring heating costs down before the election?“

It usually takes a couple of years to build new LNG export facilities. But those in charge might not know any better.


10 posted on 05/25/2024 6:31:39 AM PDT by stateofit
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To: MtnClimber

I suspect that they’re trying to keep world-wide LNG prices to help Russia finance their unprovoked full scale war of conquest over Ukraine.


11 posted on 05/25/2024 6:44:12 AM PDT by BobL
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To: MCF

“be rescinded by the first quarter of 2025”

LOL! Oh yes it will!”

... ‘cause you ain’t gonna be there, Jenny !!

(uproarious laughing emojii)


12 posted on 05/25/2024 6:47:48 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: MtnClimber

Imagine a country without the Global Warming Fraud.


13 posted on 05/25/2024 6:47:50 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: All

Geology doesn’t care about ideology.

The US produces about 0.978 trillion cubic meters of gas per year.

The US consumes about 0.881 trillion cubic meters of gas per year.

US natural gas reserves, 12.5 Trillion cubic meters, including shale. The last big increase in reserves came when it became clear the hunt of shale oil would flow gas as byproduct. That is all in the numbers above.

(From BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy, the bible of energy for about 80ish years now)


14 posted on 05/25/2024 7:17:57 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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To: MtnClimber

I am not big fan of exporting natural resources.


15 posted on 05/25/2024 7:33:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: libertylover

There is a huge DOMESTIC market for NG.


16 posted on 05/25/2024 7:33:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course it will be rescinded by the first quarter of 2025. Trump will be president by then and all your idiotic policies will be rescinded you daffy old hag.


17 posted on 05/25/2024 7:39:26 AM PDT by your other brother
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To: MtnClimber

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told a House Oversight Committee Thursday that the pause on liquified natural gas (LNG) export permits would be rescinded by the first quarter of 2025

I am sure it will Granholm, Trump will be taking office and reversing your war on energy


18 posted on 05/25/2024 9:13:14 AM PDT by wild74
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To: MtnClimber

Pretty sure it will be rescinded early 2025, since you asshats will be working on the board of corporations and not in the givernment


19 posted on 05/25/2024 12:05:10 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Pretty sure it will be rescinded early 2025, since you asshats will be working on the board of corporations and not in the givernment

Do you think we are going to run out of rope?

20 posted on 05/25/2024 12:07:29 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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