Oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright He is the new member of Donald Trump’s Government. After the Republican has been communicating different pieces of his Executive over the last few days, this Saturday he reported that this firm defender and donor to the president-elect’s campaign will be part of his cabinet to direct the Department of Energy.
Wright is founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver-based oilfield services company. He is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil and gas production and look for ways to boost electricity generation, demand for which is increasing for the first time in decades.
He is also likely to share Trump’s opposition to global cooperation in the fight against climate change. Wright has described environmental activists as alarmists and has compared Democrats’ efforts to combat global warming to Soviet-style communism.
«There is no climate crisisand we are not in the middle of an energy transition either,” Wright said in a video posted to his LinkedIn profile last year. With no political experience, he has written extensively about the need to increase fossil fuel production to lift people out of poverty.
He has also stood out among oil and gas executives for his easy-going style and describes himself as a technology nerd. Wright caused a media sensation in 2019 when he drank fracking fluid on camera to prove he was not dangerous.
US oil production reached the highest level any country has ever produced under the mandate of Joe Biden and it is clear that Wright and the incoming Administration will be able to delve in this direction.
What does the Department of Energy do?
The Department of Energy is responsible for US energy diplomacy. manages the Strategic Petroleum Reserve – which Trump has said he wants to replenish – and manages grant and loan programs to boost energy technologies, such as the Office of Loan Programs.
The secretary also supervises America’s aging nuclear weapons complexnuclear energy waste disposal and 17 national laboratories.
If confirmed by the Senate, Wright will replace Jennifer Granholma supporter of electric vehicles, emerging energy sources such as geothermal and a supporter of wind, solar and nuclear energy without carbon emissions.
Wright will also likely participate in the award of permits for the transportation of electricity and the expansion of nuclear energy, a popular source among Republicans and Democrats, but whose authorization is expensive and complicated.
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