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John Hoeven: “This country needs baseload in our grid for stability.”

Featuring: John Hoeven, Republican | U.S. Senate North Dakota

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Published | Video Starts at 1:08:09

We're leading the nation in doing this and it's vitally important because it's how we're going to keep our coal fired baseload electricity going not only today, but long into the future. As you know, This country needs baseload in our grid for stability. But the pipelines that we're talking about here one are not very long because you're up in coal country. They're going to sequester close to where the plants are for the most part. (1:08:09–1:08:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. requires baseload power for grid stability.

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