The wave of appointments started by Donald Trump for his future administration continues: he will enter the White House on January 20. The Republican president-elect announced on Saturday, November 16, his intention to appoint Chris Wright, CEO of the company Liberty Energy, specialized in hydraulic fracturing, as Secretary of Energy, with the deregulation of the sector as a roadmap.
“As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, reducing administrative barriers, and ushering in a new ‘golden era of American prosperity and world peace’”Donald Trump said in a statement.
Greetings to the winner of the presidential elections “a leading energy entrepreneur”WHO “has worked in nuclear, solar, geothermal and oil and gas energy”.
Chris Wright founded the company Liberty Energy in 2011. Hydraulic fracturing, a polluting method of extracting hydrocarbons, was a major issue in the election campaign, as Donald Trump accused his Democratic competitor, Kamala Harris, of wanting to ban the procedure, which she had refuted.
In 2019, then a candidate in the Democratic primaries, she certainly spoke out in favor of a ban, before reversing this position, which especially harmed voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, where the sector is important.
Trump praises “one of the pioneers” of the shale revolution
Chris Wright will also be a member of the brand new National Energy Council (CNE), whose creation was announced on Friday by the president-elect, and whose mission will be “oversee America’s path to energy dominance”.
A graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and UC Berkeley, Chris Wright founded the company Pinnacle Technologies in 1992. “whose innovations helped launch commercial shale gas production and created a hydraulic fracture mapping industry”specifies the Liberty Energy website. He later served as president of Stroud Energy, “one of the first producers of shale gas, before selling it to the pioneering group in this sector, Range Resources, in 2006”.
Donald Trump sees in Chris Wright “one of the pioneers who helped launch the American shale revolution that boosted American energy independence and transformed global energy markets and geopolitics”.
“No climate crisis”
Climate skeptic Chris Wright considered, in a post on his LinkedIn account a year ago, that“There is no climate crisis and we are not in the midst of an energy transition either”. “The term carbon pollution is scandalous” because all life depends on carbon dioxide, he added, also refuting the qualifications “clean energy or dirty energy, all energy sources have both positive and negative impacts”.
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The names of future ministers and officials of the new Trump administration began to be revealed just a week after the election.
Several are controversial. The host of the conservative Fox News channel, Pete Hegseth, chosen to head the Department of Defense – and accused in 2017 of sexual assault –, the skeptic of health vaccines Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the defector from the Democratic Party, accused of being pro -The Russian Tulsi Gabbard, in intelligence, or even, in justice, the ultra-Trumpist Matt Gaetz, suspected of having relations with a minor. As for Elon Musk, he will head a commission to“government efficiency”.
