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Doug Burgum: “It takes about 12 days of work to get one of those permits…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks at CERAWeek in Houston — 3/25/2026

Published | Video Starts at 13:04

And then we put strike teams on and said, your job is to work on this permit and you come every day. And it turns out It takes about 12 days of work to get one of those permits done, not two years. I mean, in terms of actual work time. And that was before we had AI. And then we throw AI in the mix and we're going to be able to accelerate it even more. (13:04–13:08)

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