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Patrick Morrisey: “When you have policies in place and bureaucrats can get away…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Governors Energy Roundtable - NGA Winter Meeting 2026

Published | Video Starts at 20:48

This is a goal not to shut down the project, but to make sure this project is done safely the right way, and preserves the environment. Look, I would go back to base principles, which are When you have policies in place and bureaucrats can get away with making decisions that are prejudicial in nature, they will continue to do so for time immemorial. So what do you have to do? Well, you have to put incentives and penalties in place so that everyone's incentivized to do it the right way. (20:48–21:01)

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Asserts that prejudicial decision-making by bureaucrats will persist if policies allow it.

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