Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, addressing the need to streamline federal permitting processes during a ribbon-cutting event for a major expansion of Venture Global’s South Louisiana LNG export facility on March 6, told workers and executives assembled for the ceremonies that, “One of our pathways to energy dominance is just unleashing the incredible resources that we have in this country: getting the red tape, getting the federal government off the back of the worker, off the back of companies.”
Indeed, the need to find ways to expedite federal permitting processes and cut red tape has been a frequent refrain from officials in both major parties for years now, although making real progress in this arena has been hard to achieve. But momentum does appear to be building on specific issues impacting development in offshore waters of the U.S., where most federal permitting process are governed by Burgum’s Interior Department agencies.
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