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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Adam Telle joins Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill for a policy discussion at a Center for Law and Policy energy forum in Houston, April 21, 2026.
Telle described how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sustains the largely unseen, underwater navigation network that moves American energy to global markets and underpins U.S. economic strength and energy dominance.
Transcript: Unfortunately, one of the hardest parts of my job is explaining this to the public because it's all underwater. If you think about the Houston Ship Channel right out here, this enables America's strategic asset, hydrocarbons, other forms of energy to make it out to global markets. None of that can happen on an economically competitive basis unless we can load ships full and have deep channels. And so all this underwater infrastructure that nobody can see is actually the secret weapon of the United States of America. It's the envy of the world. If you think about the Mississippi River system, which is our inland navigation system, nobody else in the world has a big river running right up the middle with these branching the Missouri, the Ohio River, these branching connectors. And God gave us an interstate super highway underwater that we can use to not only generate economic activity in middle America, but use that what we produce to reflect our interests across the globe. This is our biggest competitive advantage.
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| Date Taken: | 05.04.2026 |
| Date Posted: | 05.05.2026 09:46 |
| Story ID: | 564334 |
| Location: | HOUSTON, TEXAS, US |
| Web Views: | 20 |
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