Alaskan Gov. Mike Dunleavy: Biden 'Doomed' Our Oil Future, Trump 'Rescued' It

“Everything has changed” for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production, under the Trump administration, according to Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order unlocking the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska, from oil and gas to minerals and even timber.

“Whatever Alaska has is now open for business,” Dunleavy told The Daily Signal at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

Trump’s actions have “rescued Alaska, rescued, I think, the country, and quite frankly, the world from this social engineering approach that was taking place,” according to the Alaska governor.

The Biden administration was “brutal” to Alaska, Dunleavy said, adding that “opportunity was stolen left and right through upwards of 66, 68 executive orders and actions by the federal government.” Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, “offshore oil leases were suspended,” the governor explained, and leases for oil production were slowed.

“In many respects, our future in oil production in Alaska was basically doomed” under Biden, Dunleavy said. “When President Trump came in, all that has changed.”

With Trump in office, Alaska is moving ahead with the construction of 800-mile gas pipeline that will allow the U.S. to ship gas to its Asian allies. The pipeline starts in Prudhoe Bay in far north Alaska, where the state’s major oil and gas fields are located, and would end south of Anchorage in Nikiski, Alaska where the gas can be liquefied before being exported to Asia. The project also includes a carbon conditioning plant.

The pipeline project will create “thousands and thousands of jobs,” Dunleavy said, adding, “it's going to be a golden age for this country.”

It is much safer for America’s Asian allies to get their gas from the U.S., according to the governor, who says his hope is that shipments can be consistent “for at least 50 to 60 years.”

Dunleavy predicts that the increased oil production will positively affect markets and lead to lower prices for American consumers at the gas pump.

Dunleavy sits down with The Daily Signal to discuss.

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