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'A Terrible Message': LNG Players Strike Out at DOE Pause
US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told industry players this week that the Biden administration’s temporary pause on new LNG export approvals would be in the “rearview mirror” a year from now. But her words did little to assuage the concerns of some of the nation’s biggest exporters. “It sends a terrible message to the world,” Freeport LNG CEO Michael Smith said from the stage at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston. “There's a gap in time where there are customers who want to make decisions and to source LNG for 20 years, and they're not going to choose the United States. ... ... (full story)