Trump said that he would lift moratoriums on energy production in federal areas, cancel the Paris Climate Agreement and stop all payments of us tax dollars to United Nations global warming programs within his first 100 days in office.
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“It’s a choice between sharing in this great energy wealth or sharing in the poverty promised by Hillary Clinton”, Trump said at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference, referring to the Democratic party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
“You do that and you’ll be back into the Middle East and we’re going to be begging for oil again”. Oil executives have been skeptical of Trump’s candidacy since he emerged at the GOP frontrunner.
The comments deepen the contrast between the NY billionaire and his Democratic rivals for the White House, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, who both advocate a sharp turn toward renewable energy technology as a way to combat climate change.
The United States has been world’s largest petroleum hydrocarbons producer since 2013, out producing Russian Federation and OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia. “That’s not going to happen, not with me”, he said.
Trump in his prepared remarks said his presidency would remove obstacles standing in the way of further exploration.
Trump’s comments drew quick criticism from environmental advocates, who called his proposals “frightening”. “If Clinton wins, oil workers will be unhappy”, said Derrick Alexander, an operations manager at oilfield services firm Integrated Productions Services.
Clinton, he said, has “declared war on the American worker” and would “shut down the mines”.
At least in the short term, Trump’s plan would be unlikely to solve all of the energy industry’s problems. “Imagine a world in which oil cartels will no longer use energy as a weapon”, he said.
The United States now produces about 55 percent of the oil it uses, with another quarter of the total coming from Canada and Mexico, and less than 20 percent coming from OPEC, according to U.S. Energy Department statistics. “Our total untapped oil and gas reserves on federal lands equal an estimated Dollars 50 trillion”, he said, adding that any regulation that is “outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers, or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped”. Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members have declined to cut production to support prices.
“I am prepared to kick the special interests out of Washington, D.C., and to hand the seat of power over to you”, Trump said to the crowd, adding that he’d allow drilling on federal lands. Trump said he supports all forms of energy and wants the U.S.to be energy independent.
In his speech, Trump also promised to cancel the US participation in the Paris climate change accord. She is the Director of Business Development and Governmental Relations for the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA!) for North Dakota and Minnesota.
Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and a “con job”, though one of Trump’s companies recently cited climate change as a reason for applying to build a fortifying wall at a seaside golf course in Ireland. During his first 100 days in the Oval Office, Trump said he would invite TransCanada to refile its permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, lift moratoriums on drilling on federal lands, and scrap U.S. participation in the Paris climate accord.
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