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2024-01-31 Home Front: Politix

BORDER SHOWDOWN: Biden Stops Approval of LNG Exports in Retaliation of Texas' Defiance, Says Land Commissioner

[Breitbart] Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham says President Joe Biden’s recent decision to stop approval of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exports looks “more like retaliation than a sound policy decision.” Biden’s announcement came one day after “Texas took a bold stand in defending our border against foreign invaders,” the commissioner added.

President Biden announced on January 26 that he was placing a “temporary pause on pending decisions of Liquified Natural Gas exports,” Breitbart News reported. January 26 was also the DHS deadline sent in a letter to the State of Texas demanding access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas. The State has not budged on opening up the park seized earlier this month.

“Texas is the largest exporter of natural gas in the nation and the third in the world,” Commissioner Buckingham told Breitbart Texas. “This reckless federal decision made merely a day after Texas took a bold stand in defending our border against foreign invaders appears more like retaliation than a sound policy decision.”

Buckingham serves as commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, overseeing over 13 million acres of mineral-rich land. Severance taxes from production rights are used by the State of Texas to fund education.

“I will always defend Texas’ right to energy independence and stand up for the hardworking families and countless Texas schoolchildren this move will harm,” the commissioner stated.

Buckingham explained that Texas is the largest exporter of natural gas in the United States and the third-largest in the world.

President Biden claims his action was in line with his policies to “tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad.”While MAGA Republicans willfully deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my Administration will not be complacent,” the president stated. “We will not cede to special interests.”

Late last year, Commissioner Buckingham certified an island in the Rio Grande as belonging to the State of Texas. This cleared the way for the Texas Military Department and the Department of Public Safety to clear Fronton Island and remove a critical asset from drug and human smuggling cartel operations, Breitbart Texas reported.

“Fronton Island, known as the single most dangerous spot on the southern border, is cleared to patrol,” the commissioner said at the time.

“For decades, Fronton Island has been utilized by the Mexican Drug Cartels as a refuge when fleeing from rival cartels and the Mexican Military,” Texas DPS spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez told Breitbart Texas. “Still, it has primarily been used to facilitate transnational criminal activity involving human and drug smuggling.”

“With the authorization through Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, the State of Texas has taken over the island by clearing and fortifying it, allowing DPS and the National Guard to gain operational control in preventing cross-border crime,” Olivarez stated.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [30 views ] Top

#1 Research supporting Biden's pause on LNG has parallels to study supporting the gas stove ban

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-31 09:05|| 2024-01-31 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Texas land commissioner slams Biden's 'punitive' pause of natural gas exports amid border row

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-31 09:24|| 2024-01-31 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Waiting for an explanation of what sort of "fossils" are responsible for the methane oceans on Titan...

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-31 09:47|| 2024-01-31 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 New York May Screw 4,000 Legal Residents Out Of A Job - So Migrants Can Have Them
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"These individuals are able to perform many of the core duties of the positions that state agencies seek to fill.. SLIP AND SLIDE anyone?

Posted by Jack Creanter7508 2024-01-31 09:51|| 2024-01-31 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 He is treating a fellow state as an adversarial nation. This leads me to believe he is on a civil war path and in his, and his staffs< feeble mind Texas is no longer a state in the union. Shame on this president, the DNC that robbed our elections, and our government for standing by while this happens.

Posted by 49 Pan 2024-01-31 10:14|| 2024-01-31 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 He has always been vindictive.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-01-31 10:46|| 2024-01-31 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Exports from Texas go to where?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-31 11:48|| 2024-01-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 My Search-Fu is weak vs. my time available; if Texas is, by itself, #3 World Exporter, does that mean:

About 1/6 of the worldwide availability of LNG is now unavailable?

USA is now at Egypt, Trinidad/Tobago level exports?

Again, I'm swimming in water over my head, but top 4 LNG importers are:
Japan, like by a lot
Europe, as a whole
South Korea
China

Petty. Really, really petty.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-31 12:23|| 2024-01-31 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Also German is importing a lot of LNG since the Ukraine war. Way to fuck you allies Biden.

Also good luck getting Texas to go along with it.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-31 15:22|| 2024-01-31 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 ^That's going to be the interesting part. Are the Navy and Coast Guard going to stop them on behalf of the federal government? Or are they going to feel reluctant?

Posted by Secret Master 2024-01-31 15:45|| 2024-01-31 15:45|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't understand. Yes, natural gas produces CO2 when burned. But it is much better than coal, which produces only CO2, but also particulate matter, and fly ash. I don't know if natural gas is worse than oil, but I suspect it burns cleaner than oil.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-31 16:22|| 2024-01-31 16:22|| Front Page Top

#12 OK, these are rough numbers, and like I said my Search-Fu is limited today, but this is interesting.

Through the Strait of Hormuz flows about 1/5, 20%, global petroleum consumption.

That is just percentage or two more, than what Texas supplies the world with LNG.

With one hand, Team Brandon did the LNG equivalent of closing The Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-31 16:23|| 2024-01-31 16:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Bargaining chip for when Bidet negotiates for EU troops to come suppress the American proles.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-31 17:01|| 2024-01-31 17:01|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm not sure the EU could field a soccer team.

And imagine, "The Blue Hats are coming!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-01-31 17:31|| 2024-01-31 17:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Looks like Team Brandon is revisiting the EIS for one (or more) new LNG export projects. One project is -

Planned for the Louisiana coast, the project, which is also called CP2, would have an export capacity of 20 million metric tonnes annually. The U.S. is currently the world’s largest exporter of natural gas, and the $10 billion project would increase export capacity by 20%.

More at Just the News Biden bends to pressure from climate activists in pausing the natural gas export terminals

Climate again!

Posted by Bobby 2024-01-31 18:06|| 2024-01-31 18:06|| Front Page Top

#16 Bear in mind that this natural gas used to be flared off and burned at the wellhead because there was no way to use it for anything. Now it gets liquified and shipped around the world, or contrarywise used to to make the synthetic oil for your car, or turned into medical grade plastics.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-01-31 19:27|| 2024-01-31 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ And nitrogen fertilizer.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-31 19:31|| 2024-01-31 19:31|| Front Page Top

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