Lisa Murkowski Quotes

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.

Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Stable energy prices and enhanced national security will only come when we increase domestic energy resources, which was accomplished today with the opening of ANWR.

Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

We must become more energy independent. The development of ANWR will assist in this goal.

The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.

The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.

Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

Fortunately, there is a project that will create jobs, provide direct investment in our economy, and move us closer to our longstanding goal of becoming energy independent: the Keystone XL pipeline.

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.