Russia's cutoff of natural gas to western Europe forced governments there to became very pragmatic, very quickly, experts concluded at the recent Annual Energy Summit hosted by Baker Botts law firm and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy "[Germany], in essence, wiped away all of their regulatory structures in order to allow [fossil fuel] projects to move at a rapid pace," said Dan Brouil-lette, president of Sempra Infrastructure and former U.S. Secretary of Energy. "I applaud that. I think it's important that we do that, just given the acuteness of the situation that we face today as a world."
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