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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, speaks with U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, whose congressional district includes Port Aransas.<\/p>\n
Topics included the Coastal Bend water shortage when U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud spoke to Chris Wright, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, April 15.<\/p>\n
Cloud\u2019s district includes Port Aransas. Following is the full text of a news release issued by the congressman\u2019s office this morning.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014\u00a0Rep. Michael Cloud spoke with Secretary Chris Wright about TX-27 and Corpus Christi\u2019s booming energy exports during remarks yesterday before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. Secretary Wright emphasized the critical role Texas is playing in powering the nation, while Congressman Cloud, who serves as Vice Chair of the subcommittee, asked the Secretary about faster permitting reforms to address water challenges and unlock even greater energy production across the Gulf of America.<\/p>\n
In his opening remarks, Rep. Cloud took the opportunity to explain the larger geopolitical context of the need for energy security. \u201cOne of the important things, in this context, is that you and the President inherited a paradigm where China was outpacing us for world dominance for the next century. The President has turned the corner on that. Now, the keys to that, we can look at AI or other economic impacts, but those really come down to energy production\u2026 Connected to that is the importance of speed in getting that done,\u201d said Rep. Cloud.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do have a situation right now in Corpus \u2026 we\u2019re running out of water.\u201d Rep. Cloud continued to Sec. Wright, \u201cI know that you\u2019re aware of that as well, and I wanted to just remind you of that and what the Department of Energy can do to help with that \u2013 working with administration and other agencies to help with that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secretary Wright emphasized the importance of TX-27 (the district represented by Cloud) in helping this Administration bring back affordable, reliable, and secure energy. \u201cYour district there in Corpus is absolutely essential. Not only for American energy production, but of course it is our biggest gateway to ship crude oil abroad, and a huge gateway to ship LNG abroad,\u201d said Sec. Wright.<\/p>\n
In late February, Secretary Wright visited Corpus Christi alongside President Trump, and had the opportunity to see firsthand the success of critical manufacturing and infrastructure projects in the Coastal Bend. He concluded, \u201cIt\u2019s easy to stop something. It\u2019s hard to build something. That\u2019s a stagnant society. You and I, and the Trump Administration, want to build things in America again \u2026 We have to be able to build things in America again. I know you and I share that desire. You\u2019ve delivered in your district, but we need the rest of the country to build big projects like you\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Secretary Wright\u2019s visit to Capitol Hill marked the first Budget Hearing of the Energy and Water Subcommittee in preparation for the FY 27 Appropriations bills.<\/p>\n
(Editor\u2019s note: More on the Coastal Bend water situation is in this week\u2019s edition of the South Jetty.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, speaks with U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, whose congressional district includes Port Aransas.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-258225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}