A | “자본 축적해 과감히 키워야…반도체 고율관세 가능성 낮아”원화 스테이블코인엔 회의적박현주 미래에셋그룹 회장 겸 글로벌전략가(GSO)가 삼성전자와 SK하이닉스에 대한 주주환원 확대 요구를 두고 "허접한 얘기"라고 일축했다. 배당을 늘리기보다 자본을 축적해 미래 성장을 위한 투자에 나서야 한다는 취지다. 박현주 미래에셋그룹 회장 겸 글로벌전략가(GSO). 연합뉴스박 회장은 26일 서울 종로구 포시즌스호텔에서 디지털엑스 임직원들과 만나 "삼성전자가 주주환원을 못 해서 주가가 내려간다? 그런 허접한 얘기가 어디 있느냐"며 "주주환원을 해봐야 5~7%인데 그러면 미국 국채를 사는 게 낫다"고 말했다.이어 "배당을 많이 했으면 삼성전자와 SK하이닉스가 생겨났겠느냐"며 "배당을 안 해야 회사가 좋아지는 것이다. 자본 축적으로 과감히 키워야 한다"고 강조했다.미국의 대(對)한국 관세 정책에 대해서도 지나친 우려는 필요하지 않다고 봤다. 박 회장은 "미국이 한국에 관세를 세게 매기기는 어려울 것"이라며 "반도체 없이는 엔비디아도, 미국 빅테크도 돌아가지 않는다. 미국이 한국에 50% 관세를 매긴다는 건 천만의 말씀"이라고 했다.부동산과 관련해서는 "부동산 세제가 장난이 아니라고 생각한다"며 "지금 주택 문제도 해결될 가능성이 있다고 본다"고 평가했다. 이어 "부동산으로 돈 버는 시대는 모두를 위해 끝나야 한다"며 그래야 젊은 세대가 복지를 체감할 수 있다고 말했다.한편 원화 스테이블코인의 성장 가능성에는 회의적인 시각을 보였다. 박 회장은 "달러 스테이블코인은 달러 수요 때문에 갖고 있을 수 있겠지만 원화 스테이블코인이 굉장히 잘될지는 의문"이라고 말했다. 구글 등 글로벌 빅테크가 블록체인 결제시장에 뛰어들고, 향후 증권사 역시 인공지능(AI)을 활용한 자동 자산관리 서비스를 제공하게 될 것으로 전망했다.가상자산 투자에 대해서도 경계했다. 그는 "비트코인으로 돈 번 사람이 거의 없다. 거의 패가망신 수준"이라며 대출까지 받아 투자하는 방식은 위험하다고 지적했다. 그러면서 "코인을 좋아하는 고객들에게는 10분의 1 정도만 하라고 하고, 다른 투자로도 수익을 낼 수 있다는 것을 보여주겠다"고 말했다.도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 친(親)가상자산 행보도 비판했다. 박 회장은 정치권이 특정 자산에 직접 개입하는 것은 "굉장히 위험한 일"이라며 트럼프 일가의 가상자산 사업과 업계 관계자들과의 밀착 행보를 문제 삼았다.。 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Federal regulators on Thursday approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states, who said it goes against the region’s plans to address climate change and could pose a wildfire risk.The project, known as GTN Xpress, aims to expand the capacity of the Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline, which runs through Idaho, Washington and Oregon, by about 150 million cubic feet (4.2 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave it the green light in a vote on Thursday.TC Energy plans to modify three compressor stations along the pipeline — in Kootenai County, Idaho; Walla Walla County, Washington; and Sherman County, Oregon. Compressor stations help maintain the pressure and flow of gas over long distances in a pipeline. Environmental groups criticized the decision of the commission, which "failed to listen to Senators, Governors, State Attorneys General, Tribes, and the public in its rubber stamp of unnecessary fracked gas in the Northwest,” said Audrey Leonard, staff attorney for Columbia Riverkeeper, an environmental nonprofit, in a statement.Leonard said potential spills and explosions on the pipeline, which was built in the 1960s, would not only harm the environment but also present a heightened wildfire risk in the arid regions it passes through.“An explosion of that level in eastern Washington or eastern Oregon would be catastrophic,” she said.Leonard said Columbia Riverkeeper will appeal the federal regulators’ decision and submit a petition for a rehearing. The pipeline belongs to TC Energy of Calgary, Canada — the same company behind the now-abandoned Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The company said the project is necessary to meet consumer demand.Environmentalists and officials opposed to the project have expressed concern about TC Energy’s safety record. Its Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline exploded in Strasburg, Virginia, in July and its existing Keystone pipeline spilled nearly 600,000 gallons of bitumen oil in Kansas last December.The 1,377-mile (2,216-kilometer) pipeline runs from the Canadian border through a corner of Idaho and into Washington state and Oregon, connecting with a pipeline going into California.While Idaho’s Republican governor and congress members said that imposing other states’ climate policies would be “misguided,” Democratic officials in the other states called on federal officials to reject the plan. After the vote, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, condemned the decision.The project is “incompatible with our climate laws,” said a letter to the agency by Democratic U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell of Washington.“GTN Xpress represents a significant expansion of methane gas infrastructure at a time when California, Oregon, and Washington are moving away from fossil fuels,” the senators said.The attorneys general of the three states, citing the commission's draft environmental impact statement for the project, said it would result in more than 3.47 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year for at least the next three decades. The agency’s final environmental assessment revised that number downward by roughly half in calculations contested by environmental groups.The agency’s chairman, Willie Phillips, reiterated its stance after Thursday’s vote.“There was no evidence presented that this project would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions,” he told reporters. “The commission determined that this project was needed and therefore we support its approval.”In its final environmental impact statement for the project issued last November, the federal agency said the compressor stations were in non-forested areas with low to moderate fire hazard. It concluded the project “would result in limited adverse impacts on the environment.”“Most adverse environmental impacts would be temporary or short-term,” the federal agency said. The agency recommended certain steps, such as requiring the company to train its personnel and contractors on environmental mitigation measures before any construction begins. But environmental groups say the assessment didn’t adequately address the harm caused by the project, including by fracking to obtain the natural gas that flows through the pipeline. Fracking is a technique used by the energy industry to extract oil and gas from rock by injecting high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals. It has been criticized by climate and environment groups for increasing emissions of methane, an extraordinarily potent greenhouse gas. ___Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.。
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