WGC 2018: Perry puts LNG at heart of US energy policy
The emergence of the US as a global LNG exporter fits Trump's plans to boost - rather than diminish - the future role of fossil fuels in the country
US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Tuesday that rapid growth in the country's natural gas industry underlines why the Trump administration continues to see fossil fuels as a crucial part of the long-term US energy mix. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Gas Conference in Washington, Perry said the shale boom that's led the US towards the cusp of energy independence over the past decade has been an "energy miracle". Thirty years ago people would be "dumbfounded" if told the country would be on a path to becoming the world's largest oil and gas producer in 2018, he said, crediting innovation and taking aim at critics of the Trump administration's "all-of-the-above" energy strate
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