US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he has chosen Chris Wright for the position of Secretary of Energy.
His profile
Chris Wright is a CEO of companies in the oil and gas industry. He himself is a staunch defender of the use of fossil fuels.
Wright is the 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, for which demand is rising for the first time in decades.
Chris Wright’s position on climate change
It is also possible that Chris Wright shares Trump’s opposition to global cooperation to combat climate change.
He himself has called climate change activists riskologists. At the same time, he has likened the Democrats’ efforts to fight global warming to Soviet-style communism.
«There is no climate crisis, nor are we in the middle of an energy transitionWright said in a video posted on his LinkedIn profile last year.
He himself has no political experience, he has written extensively about the need for more fossil fuel production to lift people out of poverty.
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