BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will deliver his first policy speech on energy on Thursday, hours after locking up enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination.
Trump will be speaking at the annual Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, and is expected to lay out an “all of the above” approach with a renewed focus on domestic energy production and a call to loosen federal environmental regulations.
Speaking on Fox’s “Hannity” last week, Trump said his speech would focus on U.S. energy independence.
“It’s going to be everything,” he said when asked whether his approach would include coal and hydraulic fracturing, a drilling process that involves injecting fluid at high pressure into shale rock.
“Mr. Trump will draw a contrast between Hillary Clinton’s plan to eliminate millions of good-paying energy jobs — including countless union jobs — and Mr. Trump’s plan to add millions of new jobs for America’s workers,” Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller said in a statement, referring to Trump’s likely Democratic rival.