A Canadian pipeline boss led a new report advising the Trump administration on how to more quickly build new oil and gas infrastructure in the United States amid a push north of the border to do the same.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright requested the study on permitting from the National Petroleum Council, which includes 200 members he appointed from both inside and outside the oil and gas industry. The body was formed just after the Second World War.
TC Energy Corp. president and CEO François Poirier chairs the council’s committee on oil and natural gas permitting, and was in Washington on Wednesday for the release of the report entitled Bottleneck to Breakthrough: A Permitting Blueprint to Build….