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Jim Justice: “We cut a log, dry keel it, and then we put it in a truck.”

Featuring: Jim Justice, Republican | U.S. Senate, West Virginia

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Senator Justice Highlights West Virginian Danielle Petrak at Committee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 03:26

When we think about natural resources, we think about coal and oil and gas, but we have water and we have unbelievable timber. Now, just think what we do. What we do when we. We cut a log, dry keel it, and then we put it in a truck. Instead of making something right there in America, we put it in a truck and we drive it to Newport News. Emissions going everywhere. Then we put it on a boat, same thing. (03:26–03:30)

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Describes the process of handling logs in West Virginia before exporting them.

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