If renewable energy supporters, including those who testified recently before a State Senate committee interim hearing in Oklahoma, think the Trump administration might ease its opposition to wind and solar power, they should take deep consideration of what U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told Europe this week.
U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum had a blunt message at the Gastech conference in Milan, Italy, which is an annual gathering of the global gas industry….Europe should stop buying gas from Russia.
Whether the European countries will heed his call is one thing. But Burgum made it clear the U.S. is willing to provide the natural gas.
“We achieve prosperity at home and with our allies through energy abundance… Peace is achieved around the world by selling our energy to our friends and allies who don’t have to buy from our adversaries,” said Burgum, a former governor of the oil and gas-rich state of North Dakota reported Reuters.
For those renewable energy supporters, Secretary Burgum also professed offshore wind has no future for electricity generation in the U.S.
“Under this administration, there is not a future for offshore wind because it is too expensive and not reliable enough,” Burgum told the audience, according to CNBC.