Trump weighs into permitting debate

摘要

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is vowing to fx a permitting process that has become a “disaster” for oil and natural gas companies and created delays for energy infrastructure projects. Trump told an industry event on 22 September that he would enable the construction of “billions of dollars” of infrastructure projects held up by Presi- dent Barack Obama’s administration. The oil and gas industry’s permitting problems stem, in part, from issues with environmental agency the EPA, he says. “The permitting process in your industry is a disaster,” Trump said at the Shale Insight conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Every friend I have in your industry, they tell me it has become horrible with the EPA, so we are going to take care of that,” Trump says.