Doug Burgum
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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And just the level of permitting, we always talk about how, I think I may have even talked about it on your podcast, how Germany had de-industrialized.
We even made the decision to de-industrialize through our environmental regulations.
i think the most important thing we can do is make it easy to build things again and stay out of the way and not over regulate secretary thank you thank you very much
And prior to that, when it was originally built, because this is before the amazing miracle of the whole shale revolution in our country, without that, this was being built as a LNG import facility. That was the original thing. We're going to have to import LNG to America. Now, LNG is the number two dollar export on the all-time list for the country.
It's the second most highest dollar value we export. We went from being like, oh, we're going to run out of oil and gas, to today, we're energy independent on a net basis, and we're on our path towards becoming energy dominant.
David, it's great to be with you. Thank you for coming down and seeing this amazing facility.
Well, I think President Trump, one of his core goals, if we talk about energy dominance, which is beyond energy independence, it's not just a slogan. It's really about how do we have the power to power AI in America? How do we power the remanufacturing in America? And then how do we sell energy to our friends and allies so that they don't have to buy it from our adversaries?
And what you and I had a chance to see today is the largest LNG export facility in America, the second largest in the world.
Absolutely. And part of the amazing energy transformation that I think is not fully appreciated by most Americans is when this plant began in the early 2000s, it was meant to be an LNG import facility. America was running out of oil and gas. And they said, wait, we got to be ready to start importing it just to meet our needs.
Well, along comes the shale gas revolution, again, driven by technology, that technology of horizontal drilling, that ability to, you know, fractionate rock and get oil and gas out of places that people thought was just impossible that we would ever be retrieving. Those resources from those hard rock shale locations.
And so then this thing, after the financial crisis, turned around and began its life as an export facility. And now, as you say, the only one larger in the world is in the Middle East.
It's been quite a journey, you know, starting out in a town of 300 people in North Dakota with all gravel streets and no computers to end up having an opportunity to be part of a software startup, you know, grow that business, take it public, have a great run as a public company, get acquired in an all stock deal by Microsoft, stayed there for seven years, you know, helping grow Microsoft from 40,000 people to 90,000 people.
And there was 2,000 of us at Great Plains when we got acquired. There was 1,200 in Fargo, 400 rest of North America, 400 rest of the world. We become this improbable global software company coming from the Great Plains. And then when I left Microsoft to presumably spend more time with kids, retire, that was an epic fail. Ended up in two more startups within six months.
Was involved in three more software IPOs and dozens of other startups.
uh businesses and i mean software businesses and then in 2016 at a time when we were having an energy collapse in prices uh there was an open seat for governor and i threw my hat in the ring and we were down 69 10 in the polls in january the primary was in june uh catherine was who became the first lady was like oh we've got a great life let's why would we why would we get into politics why would we get into that and i assured her that
We had no chance of winning. She didn't have to ever worry about being first lady. But this would be fun for six months to create some competition. But we ended up winning that primary and then went on. It was a good year for outsiders. So we took office about a... In North Dakota, you start middle of December. So about 36 days ahead of President Trump, we were sworn in.
Had four amazing years working with President Trump as a governor. There was a win behind our back. And then second term, we got reelected by the largest margin in the country of any race. But then I was serving as a governor under the Biden administration. And in a state where we're rapidly becoming a very resource-rich state, we had climbed to being the number two oil producer in the country.
We had tremendous coal resources, incredible agriculture resources, and in ranching. And the Biden administration really was having a war on whether it was timber, grazing, oil and gas, coal, critical minerals. I mean, anything that had to do with extraction, there was a regulatory battle going on.
would have to say that a part of me not just became frustrated, I became very concerned about the future of the country. And that led to, you know, jumping at the national level and saying, hey, we've got to have a policy because if we don't have energy security, we're not going to have national security. And that's what really drove sort of us sitting here right now today.
Well, we were in touch because, you know, we knew each other as a governor would know a president. Right. But I was never really running against President Trump. And I think the record shows that. I was really running against these horrifically dangerous and, you know, unsound, unsafe policies of the Biden administration, which are almost too numerous to enumerate.
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