U.S. Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, U.S. Congressman Kelly Armstrong as well as North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum have all engaged with The Crude Life regarding the Biden Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement of a new methane emissions proposal.
U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, said the following.
“During a period of skyrocketing energy costs, the Biden Administration is taking another harmful strike at America’s energy producers. Energy innovation, not penalization, is what has allowed our nation to lower emissions significantly over the last decade. Just seven years ago, the natural gas capture rate in North Dakota was 75% but has recently risen to 94%. Instead of continuing down the path of heavy-handed regulation, we should incentivize and encourage our energy producers to continue their progress in lowering emissions while providing the cleanest, most secure energy supply in the world. This proposal is duplicative of the good work North Dakota is already doing and it imposes Washington’s bureaucratic mediocrity on our state’s excellence. I encourage North Dakotans to participate during the comment period and make their voices heard.”
Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said.
“The Biden administration is undermining domestic energy production at the cost of good jobs and increased prices for consumers. Natural gas prices are already skyrocketing, with home heating prices expected to be up 30 percent this winter, and these regulations combined with the burdensome taxes in the Democrats’ tax-and-spend legislation will make matters worse.
“North Dakota has demonstrated that we can produce more energy with better environmental stewardship. Last year, the oil and gas industry in our state captured 94 percent of all natural gas produced in the Bakken. We can replicate that success across the nation by providing regulatory relief and empowering the energy industry to invest in gas-gathering lines, transmission pipelines and the facilities needed to capture and make good use of methane. That means streamlining the regulatory process, not imposing unworkable rules and unnecessary costs that will only further discourage energy production in the U.S., which will lead to greater inflation and harm our economic and national security.”
Senator Hoeven added that The Biden administration is also working to create a new natural gas tax as part of the Democrats’ tax-and-spend legislation.
Congressman Armstrong sent out this Twitter Tweet
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum said.
“North Dakota continues to have some of the cleanest air in the nation while maintaining its position as one of the country’s top oil producing states. Rather than imposing duplicative and costly regulations and driving up energy costs for U.S. consumers, the Biden administration should be allowing industry to reinvest in existing and future infrastructure to protect the environment and human health while also reducing regulatory costs,” Burgum said. “Working with industry, our state has substantially reduced emissions from all phases of oil development, including wellheads, transmission and gas processing. The way to address methane emissions is through innovation, not redundant and burdensome regulations that will only drive energy production overseas where it is produced less cleanly and efficiently.”
Governor Burgum added this follows a similar Obama administration proposal that was removed under the Trump administration.
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