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Were joined by supervisor mark farrell, who will discuss one of the items on the agenda. Just a point of housekeeping, first of all, we need to keep our voices down. I want to recognize that we have an overflow room in the north light court. If anyone has who is in this chamber, who does not have a seat, please go to north light court. Also just want to recognize that we have translation for folks that need translation, both in english excuse me, chinese, as well as spanish. Our clerk is ms. And...

Thank you, scott sanchez, Planning Department. And i will leave the legal arguments to the attorneys, and perhaps the deputy City Attorney may even want to weigh in, in regards to the vested rights argument and that is something that does appear often here. And it is my understanding as somebody who is not an attorney, that there is an order to be a vested right it has to be a lawfully issued permit that is the problem with the case here that it does not appear that the permit was lawfully issue...

There is no comparison which allows us to be able to produce the gas at a much lower cost. I think the real important point here is that right now what australia is experiencing because they are exporting literally 50 , more than 50 of what theyre producing their exporting. Even in the most well, the eia projections so we will be exporting only 9 of our production in 2040. I think there really is no comparison to make there, and no threat that the United States would end up experiencing the same...

Going in a helicopter over this with the epa administrator right after it happened. Stunning. Now. The company has come in and, you know cleaned up most of what was there. We still cant fish. People along the river cant use their property their back yards. This is going to take tens of years to clean up. You can go to the other side of the state where we have in detroit mounds of whats called Petroleum Coke from tar sands that was sitting on the detroit river, now not only blowing into the river...

Us is the authorization of construction of pipeline infrastructure, the keystone xl, a project that in my view and i think the view of certainly all on this side and several others on the other side is important to our energys infrastructure system and how we work to build that out. I dont think its any breaking news here today, but i do believe that our climate is changing. I have said that. I dont agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity. Ive come from a state wh...

Hence geothermal nuclear, they remain core and important parts of the department of energys technology program. That said, we have seen big fluctuations in Natural Gas Prices, that have come from a variety of sources. That is something that we have to take into account. We look at the importance of price when we look at Public Interest determination. They impact the price on consumers, on manufacturers, and a lot 6 the issues that you heard here on the panel. That is something were focused on. W...

Could get a green light to produce something make something, move forward with a project in the United States of america pretty quickly. Now were ranked 41st in the world in the dealing with Construction Permit category by the world bank. Were getting worse. Other countries are Getting Better. Germany, Something Like number eight. South korea is Something Like number 12. And capital is flowing to different places around the world and not coming here because of the time it takes to permit somethi...

And direction that you are taking. But i think we here in Congress Need to be thinking longterm. Secretary moniz has made very clear that he wants to work through this process, but i worry that perhaps a future secretary of energy might not be as favorable to lng exports connelling out of this secretary around the administration. So i question that i would ask you very directly is whether or not you think s33, as it is written, is workable and achievable. Thank you, madam chair, for the question...

Called baker, montana. Its not just about canadian oil coming to the u. S. Its about north dakota and montana oil. Second, as i was traveling one day to a rural coop in glasgow, montana, there in my pickup, i show up in my jeans and my jacket, they told me that the Keystone Pipelines approved electric rates for their coop payers folk who is dont have a lot of money, thousands of montana families in eastern part of our state their rates will remain flat for the next ten years because of the Keyst...

And i look forward to looking to working with senator cantwell. Our geographic neighbors so to speak with so much shared interests between the states of washington and alaska. We have a lot that we can be working on collaboratively. To i have a very strong collaborative relationship with my colleague from oregon senator wyden, from the committee. I think we set a good tone for this committee, in terms of how we build things and how we work to advance initiatives throughout the process. Having sa...