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2015 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 36
BY REPRESENTATIVE KLECKLEY AND SENATOR ALARIO AND
REPRESENTATIVES ABRAMSON, ADAMS, ANDERS, ARMES, ARNOLD,
BADON, BARRAS, BARROW, BERTHELOT, BILLIOT, STUART BISHOP,
WESLEY BISHOP, BOUIE, BROADWATER, BROWN, BURFORD, HENRY
BURNS, TIM BURNS, BURRELL, CARMODY, CARTER, CHANEY, CONNICK,
COX, CROMER, DANAHAY, DOVE, EDWARDS, FANNIN, FOIL, FRANKLIN,
GAINES, GAROFALO, GEYMANN, GISCLAIR, GUILLORY, GUINN, HALL,
HARRIS, HARRISON, HAVARD, HAZEL, HENRY, HENSGENS, HILL,
HODGES, HOFFMANN, HOLLIS, HONORE, HOWARD, HUNTER, HUVAL,
IVEY, JACKSON, JAMES, JEFFERSON, MIKE JOHNSON, ROBERT JOHNSON,
JONES, LAMBERT, NANCY LANDRY, TERRY LANDRY, LEBAS, LEGER,
LEOPOLD, LOPINTO, LORUSSO, MACK, MIGUEZ, MILLER, MONTOUCET,
MORENO, JAY MORRIS, JIM MORRIS, NORTON, ORTEGO, OURSO,
PEARSON, PIERRE, PONTI, POPE, PRICE, PUGH, PYLANT, REYNOLDS,
RICHARD, RITCHIE, ROBIDEAUX, SCHEXNAYDER, SCHRODER,
SEABAUGH, SHADOIN, SIMON, SMITH, ST. GERMAIN, STOKES, TALBOT,
THIBAUT, THIERRY, WHITNEY, ALFRED WILLIAMS, PATRICK WILLIAMS,
WILLMOTT, AND WOODRUFF AND SENATORS ADLEY, ALLAIN,
AMEDEE, APPEL, BROOME, BROWN, BUFFINGTON, CHABERT, CLAITOR,
CORTEZ, CROWE, DONAHUE, DORSEY-COLOMB, ERDEY, GALLOT,
GUILLORY, HEITMEIER, JOHNS, KOSTELKA, LAFLEUR, LONG, MARTINY,
MILLS, MORRELL, MORRISH, MURRAY, NEVERS, PEACOCK, PERRY,
PETERSON, RISER, GARY SMITH, JOHN SMITH, TARVER, THOMPSON,
WALSWORTH, WARD, AND WHITE
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To recognize Wednesday, May 13, 2015, as the third annual Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Day at the state capitol.
WHEREAS, plentiful natural gas supplies and unprecedented advances in technology
have provided a historic opportunity for the United States to achieve energy self-sufficiency
while creating jobs and wealth for our economy; and
WHEREAS, pioneering exploration and extraction methods have opened vast natural
gas resources to development in areas such as the Haynesville Shale so that demand on
United States natural gas markets can grow with little impact on domestic prices; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Energy estimates natural gas production levels will
increase by fifty-five percent by the year 2040; this is a growth trend that can support
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domestic demand while allowing the United States to capitalize on the economic benefit of
exporting abundant natural gas to other nations; and
WHEREAS, expanding markets for United States natural gas is also consistent with
national trade and security policy because failure to expand liquefied natural gas exports
would force our allies to continue to rely on regimes that are hostile to United States'
interests for their energy needs; and
WHEREAS, global demand for liquefied natural gas is expected to increase
significantly over the next two decades, with Louisiana gas poised to play a major role in
meeting such demand; and
WHEREAS, liquefied natural gas exports will create tens of thousands of
construction and operations jobs in the state of Louisiana and will support fifty thousand
jobs; and
WHEREAS, fourteen liquefied natural gas production facilities have been proposed
in the state of Louisiana with a total announced investment of over 64 billion dollars,
including the first two fully permitted export facilities in the lower forty-eight states, which
are currently under construction in Cameron Parish; and
WHEREAS, liquefied natural gas exports could provide incentives for new
infrastructure investments worth billions of dollars and generate royalties and local tax
revenues in communities across the state of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, a diverse coalition of Louisiana LNG producers, energy and petroleum
companies, business groups, service companies, and others have expressed their support for
LNG exports.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
recognize Wednesday, May 13, 2015, as the third annual Liquefied Natural Gas Day at the
state capitol and does hereby express support for the efforts of "Our Energy Movement", a
nonprofit, grassroots organization with the mission of supporting the exports of natural gas
and educating the public and policy leaders on the benefits that LNG exports will bring to
the United States.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to members of the United States Congress as an expression of the Legislature of Louisiana's
support of liquefied natural gas exports and the streamlining and expediting of permit
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approval for pending export facilities so that the economic benefits of LNG exports can be
magnified throughout the state of Louisiana as well as the United States.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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