Flash! U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič to Join President Trump’s Visit to LNG Export Facility
U.S. Mission to the EU
(May 14, 2019) Washington, DC—Today U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič will join President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on a trip to the $10 billion Cameron Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
Ambassador Sondland and Vice-President Šefčovič will use their participation in the trip to highlight the United States as a reliable supplier of LNG that can play an important and economically competitive role in diversifying Europe’s energy supplies.
Before departing Brussels, Ambassador Sondland and Vice President Šefčovič spoke to a group of reporters about the importance of U.S.-EU cooperation. “The United States is going to play a critical and important role in Europe’s future energy needs, and this will end the Russian stranglehold over European energy,” Sondland said. “We think this is very much a ‘Berlin Wall moment’ in that this is the beginning of the end of single source dominance of energy to Europe.”
Vice President Šefčovič hailed this “very important moment” as “transatlantic cooperation at its best,” adding “the Cameron LNG project is a tangible proof of our strategic partnership in energy security.”
“I think that we see already today that [U.S.] LNG is competitive,” Šefčovič said. According to Šefčovič, in general, what Europe seeks is reliable suppliers, fair competition with no political strings attached, and competitive prices.