'We're Being Crippled By Our Own Administration': GOP Senator Blasts Biden Over Energy Move

8 months ago

At a Senate Republican press briefing on Monday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) spoke about energy production in the United States.

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00:00Well, Dan, thank you for organizing a small group to talk about the Biden administration's

00:08impact on our national security through lack of – through energy insecurity, because

00:14that's exactly what is happening here.

00:17And his tool for the moment is through Alaska, to basically suggest that we should be getting

00:25our oil from Iran, from Venezuela, that we should be getting our critical minerals from

00:32just about any place other than Alaska.

00:36He is destabilizing our security as a nation in a way that most didn't think possible

00:45in such a short time period.

00:48But that's what we're seeing happen.

00:51Yesterday on Capitol Hill, we had the first inaugural Alaska Resources Day.

00:57We had industry leaders from across the spectrum, everything from oil and gas to mining to tourism.

01:05I would say that we had timber represented, but this administration has chased off that

01:11industry in our state as well.

01:14But it was supposed to be a day where we were going to be celebrating and recognizing the

01:17great contributions that resources have brought to a resource-rich state like Alaska.

01:25And instead, we woke up to news that tomorrow was going to be another day at the Office

01:32for the Biden administration where we basically lock up Alaska tighter than ever before.

01:38And we anticipate that tomorrow, millions more acres will be taken offline, restricted,

01:47prohibited from development within the National Petroleum Reserve.

01:53The National Petroleum Reserve, an area designated by the federal government decades ago.

01:59For what?

02:00For petroleum resources.

02:03But no, we're going to take it offline.

02:05In addition to doing that, the administration, I don't know, maybe they just want to get

02:11all the Alaska bad news off the table in one fell day, but to basically put a nail in a

02:20roads-to-resources project that has been authorized by law, that has been underway, again, for

02:27decades through multiple administrations, but basically saying that this resource road,

02:34a gravel, private, basically a haul road, is not going to be allowed access through

02:40small parcels of federal land.

02:42So it's more than a one-two punch to Alaska, because when you take off access to our resources,

02:51when you say you cannot drill, you cannot produce, you cannot explore, you cannot move

02:55it, this is the energy insecurity that we're talking about.

03:02Because we're still going to need the germanium, the gallium, the copper.

03:07We're still going to need the oil, but we're just not going to get it from Alaska.

03:13We're just not going to get it from the United States.

03:15We'd rather take it from Iran, from Russia, and all the other places where they really

03:22don't care about us, and they love the fact that we're being crippled by our own administration.

'We're Being Crippled By Our Own Administration': GOP Senator Blasts Biden Over Energy Move

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