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The Energy 202: Rick Perry's role in Ukraine under scrutinyWashington Post, Oct 3, 2019[snip]Energy secretaries “do get involved from time to time on diplomatic issues,†said Susan Tierney, a former assistant secretary for policy at the Energy Department under Obama. Curbing Eastern and Central European countries' dependence on Russia for electricity and heating fuel was “very early on a priority†for the Trump administration, according to George David Banks, a former Trump White House energy policy adviser. Given Perry's happy-go-lucky charm — and the fact that former secretary of state Rex Tillerson was recused from dealing with several energy issues because of his previous job as ExxonMobil's chief executive — it made sense for Perry to work on Ukraine, Banks said.“He’s a natural-born diplomat,†Banks said.Ukraine, rich with its own natural gas reserves, does not import gas from the United States, unlike some Eastern European nations such as Poland and Lithuania. But it does take in and burn American coal — about 4.8 million tons of it in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Most of that U.S.-to-Ukraine-bound coal is of a special grade often used in manufacturing steel, a major industry in Ukraine. The United States is only one of a few coal-exporting countries that has that type of coal.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/10/03/the-energy-202-rick-perry-s-role-in-ukraine-under-scrutiny/5d94c53788e0fa50a6e1be4d/
@corbe Also, appears Ukraine is everywhere in this government.
Perry's been there a long time.
@Sanguine Perry came in shortly after Trump came in and chose him for Energy Secretary.And Trump sent him to Ukraine earlier this year right after their new president came in. There is that Ukraine thing again.
Ukraine is a significant player in the World Energy Market, particularly to the EU. It could have been Legit meeting. Perry WAS Al Gores Texas Campaign Chair so he is prone to doing stupid $hit, at times, so there's that.