{"id":1022616,"date":"2021-06-03T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1022616"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:19:00","slug":"cornyn-addresses-energy-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1022616","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn addresses energy summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — Senator John Cornyn keynotes the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Energy Summit and holds a press conference afterwards. One key topic: the electricity grid in the face of February’s Arctic blast — and recent cyber attacks. Cornyn said, “I don’t think we’re any more prepared for cyber attacks on our grid than we were for this extremely cold weather — and we better wake up, and we better pay attention and fix that, because our grid is critical infrastructure; it’s national security.” <\/p>\n

Cornyn also acknowledged the need for alternative energy sources — but not at the expense of oil and gas. He told media, “In Texas, for example, there are many jobs that depend on the oil and gas industry — and…matter of fact, President Trump did very well in South Texas among Hispanic voters because they were worried about the Green New Deal and the threat to their jobs — banning fracking and things like that.” Cornyn also said other countries depend on a strong American oil and gas sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — Senator John Cornyn keynotes the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce Energy Summit and holds a press conference afterwards. One key topic: the electricity grid in the face of February’s Arctic blast — and recent cyber attacks. Cornyn said, “I don’t think we’re any more prepared for cyber attacks on our grid than we … Continue reading Cornyn addresses energy summit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1022620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/johncornyn-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cornyn addresses energy summit","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 14:32:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/06\/johncornyn-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Cornyn addresses energy summit","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022622,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022616\/revisions\/1022622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}