Today’s update follows up on this and all prior posts about the Biden Department of Energy’s scandal over “pausing” liquified natural gas exports to non-FTA countries, at the behest of its environmentalist pressure group base—the lies involved in which are becoming increasingly outrageous as time passes.
GAO has obtained this production of eleven records totaling 38 pages (including duplicates, essentially blank pages and pages claiming that attachments were withheld).
This drib and half a drab is in response to a GAO FOIA request for a universe of documents which DoE initially said were responsive to a FOIA request seeking a buried 2023 LNG export study, and all emails transmitting such. Which story DoE soon changed to ‘nothing to see here.’ So GAO sought the records separately from the ongoing litigation over that switcheroo.
GAO then had to file suit over this, as well.
DoE had claimed that these docs total 97 records, and several thousand pages. Which it has had months to process, and purportedly has been providing to congressional oversight, who picked up on GAO’s initial revelation of the existence of the buried study (i.e., the lie behind the “pause”).
Look at the emails. Discussing recurring coordination meetings in January 2023, meetings about, and advanced drafts of, an LNG export study.
That would be the LNG Export Study that DoE (as it recently, irresistibly) implied in court, the Biden DoE lied about when announcing the pause, claiming that on or after January 26, 2024, it would “begin”, and “initiate a process” of producing. But a study that DoE now it says was really in draft form many months before it was even a gleam in the political appointees’ eyes. Odd, that.
For example, although initiated in January 2024, it was already “back on track” in July 2023.
And so on and so forth. Just incredible.
Maybe, just maybe, as sources informed GAO, rather than DoE having engaged in time travel…this 2023 LNG Export Study, which was never published, was buried. And the claim was a lie in service of engineering a less politically intolerable product, crashed upon and pushed out the door last month just ahead of the administration proper.
Which. Time. Is. DoE. Lying? To the public? To the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia? All of the above? Inquiring minds want to know about this timeline. As others have…
The Biden Department of Energy has been lying, to the public, to U.S. allies, and now it seems to the courts, in one of the more breathtakingly reckless single gambits in energy policy in many years, if not decades. And those at DoE continue to try and forestall these damning details from emerging for as long as they can.