Doug Burgumx3pg, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Interior Department, said on Thursday he viewed America’s public lands and waters as part of the country’s financial “balance sheet,” with potentially trillions of dollars worth of oil, gas and minerals waiting to be extracted beneath the surface.
Mr. Burgum, who served two terms as governor of North Dakota, insisted that the United States was in the midst of an energy crisis, even as it is producing more oil than any nation at any time in history and is the world’s leading exporter of liquefied natural gas. He said if confirmed he intended to realize Mr. Trump’s vision of “energy dominance,” a phrase that is shorthand for more fossil fuel production, and called that the “foundation of American prosperity.”
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Burgum also assured lawmakers he cared about conservation,fef777 but declared that any curbs on energy production posed a national security threat to the United States.
“When energy production is restricted in America it doesn’t reduce demand,” Mr. Burgum said. “It just shifts productions to countries like Russia and Iran, whose autocratic leaders not don’t care at all about the environment, but they use their revenues from energy sales to fund wars against us and our allies.”
Democrats tried and failed to get Mr. Burgum to commit to supporting the continued development of renewable energy sources like wind, and none pressed him on how he would address climate change. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels produced on federal lands and waters account for nearly 22 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases.
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