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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visits Brooklyn site, urges support for LNG and baseload power
Summary
During a Brooklyn visit and a television appearance, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum promoted energy infrastructure — including LNG pipelines and baseload sources such as natural gas and nuclear — and highlighted a lease and projects at Floyd Bennett Field and Greenpoint.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Brooklyn this week, touring Floyd Bennett Field and the National Grid Greenpoint facility and highlighting a new ten-year lease and energy projects at the site.
Speaking at the site and later on television, Burgum argued that support for energy infrastructure, including LNG pipelines and LNG facilities, is essential to both environmental goals and grid reliability. "If you care about the environment, if you care about making sure we've got the power to support AI…if we have enough supply for power to get your electricity prices down, then you've got to be supporting the infrastructure we need in this country," he said during the visit.
Burgum also appeared on Fox Business with Larry Kudlow and reiterated the administration’s emphasis on baseload power. "The grid, the grid is the mother of all networks," he said, adding that affordable, 24-hour baseload power is one way to keep the grid reliable and support other national systems.
The visit included a stop at Aviator Sports, where Burgum noted local efforts to keep the ice rink open after a potential closure, and a tour of the Williams Transco project at Floyd Bennett Field. The department described the field’s shift to energy-related uses and said the visit combined community preservation with infrastructure priorities.
Those remarks reflect the secretary’s policy emphasis; the department’s weekly excerpt did not announce regulatory or permitting actions linked to the visit.
