Jones Act

“The Jones Act basically mandates that if you're going to transport something by water within the United States, you have to use a vessel that meets four conditions. The vessel has to be flagged and registered in the United States. It has to be at least 75% own…”

“East Coast refineries, say, in the Mid-Atlantic they import more oil from places like Libya or the Middle East or Nigeria than they do from Texas, from the Gulf Coast.”

“And in fact this is what Dominion Energy did for their offshore wind demonstration project off the coast of Virginia a few years ago They installed, I think, two turbines, and they did the whole, they ran the whole thing out of Canada, I think St. John, Canad…”

“Navy contracts, which this is unrelated to the Jones Act, but they also have you know, Navy and military contracts are really their bread and butter. Jones Act is kind of a sideshow for most of them. The majority of revenue is from government contracts.”

“And the GAO, they did a study back in the eighties about the cost to Alaska with the Jones Act. They concluded that it cost Alaskans, it was something like the equivalent of two percent of the state's income was the cost of the Jones Act.”

“But in the United States, we can't Do that because we don't have any vessels wind turbine installation vessels that comply with the Jones Act.”

“We can't transport it by water to other parts of the United States because there are no LNG tankers that comply with the Jones Act.”

“It is written into Alaskan state law, it is a duty of the governor to lobby for the Jones Act's repeal, and yet all three members of the Alaska delegation are pro-Jones Act.”