Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called on former President Donald Trump to put her in charge of natural resources if he is reelected in 2024.
During a Wednesday interview at the Republican National Convention, the Native Voice One podcast asked Boebert who Trump should name as secretary of the interior.
"I think Lauren Boebert needs to be secretary of the interior," Boebert said. "President Trump, I would like to be secretary of the interior."
"Public lands are something that are very dear to me, and I've spent a lot of time on our tribal lands with our chairman and our council members," she continued.
Boebert said that, under her leadership, the Bureau of Land Management would be distributed to the states. She also addressed concerns over energy production.
"I am pro-fossil fuels oil and gas and I especially want to explore nuclear," she explained. "But I think that our tribal lands are impacted severely when we are shutting down our coal-fired energy plants."
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"States like Colorado, we have some of the cleanest coal in the entire world, and that affects those tribal lands down the road that are getting energy, and they're forced to burn wood in some areas, which we know is as much dirtier, a much dirtier way to produce heat."
Under her leadership, Boebert promised to promote oil drilling on tribal lands.
"We have a lot of drilling that takes place and I believe that that is a cleaner way to take care of the environment and extract those resources that we have been blessed with to use what's given to us by the earth to produce this energy in a clean and efficient way rather than just covering it up with solar panels and wind turbines killing so many vital species," she opined.
Scientists have concluded that wind turbines are not a significant threat to bird species when compared to the loss of habitat.
