Posted on 01/08/2025 8:13:18 PM PST by fluorescence
Gov. Spencer Cox plans to discuss unlocking energy potential on public lands among other issues as he heads to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday along with Republican governors from across the country to pitch their priorities to President-elect Donald Trump.
“I plan to talk to him, if I get the opportunity, about energy and about public lands and how we can unleash the energy potential, especially in the West,” Cox told reporters Wednesday after his ceremonial inauguration. “We need significant reform in the energy space, especially when it comes to nuclear, being able to permit nuclear.”
One of Cox’s main goals for his second term is doubling energy production within the next decade, and his vision for achieving that includes bringing nuclear power to the Beehive State for the first time.
Utah’s history with all things nuclear has been fraught, since an untold number of residents were sickened by exposure to fallout from atomic bomb tests in neighboring Nevada. Utah later was targeted as a site for a high-level nuclear waste repository — a plan that ultimately was abandoned.
Cox said he expects discussions to arise on housing affordability, border security and inflation — topics that are concerns for all of the GOP governors.
Utah’s chief executive said he also anticipates raising the status of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National monuments — which were created by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, respectively, slashed to a fraction of their size during the first Trump presidency, and then restored under President Joe Biden.
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This is awesome! I don’t ever recall a governor talking to a POTUS one-on-one or to a President-elect. I’m sure it’s happened, but I can’t think of another time.
One exec to another talking about serious issues of importance to all Americans.
They’re all falling at his feet! This is incredible!
“Grand Staircase-Escalante National monuments “
were designed to put “off limits” many natural resources.
We need the oil and gas there.
They can be developed intelligently.
Like all our off shore resources.
If I have to be in person with a Democrat
that expounds otherwise, I’ll go to jail for assault.
I have a lawyer on speed dial, I’m an old man and I don’t really care anymore.
Interesting with all the meetings at MAL. I wonder how much it is worth now?
It is ridiculous how long it takes to get a permit to build a nuke - longer than it takes to build the edifice. I would not be surprised if most of that time the paperwork was being slow-walked thru the FedGov bureaucracy by lazy leftist overpaid GND supporting slugs.
Fake news headfake on Nuclear
Utah has oil, gas and coal they could bring to market
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