Trump appoints fracking magnate Chris Wright as energy secretary
Donald Trump This Saturday he appointed the fracking magnate Chris Wright as secretary of energy for his Government.
In a statement in which he announced the news, Trump assured that, in his role, Wright “will be a key leader, driving innovation, reducing bureaucracy and marking the beginning of a new ‘Golden Age of American Prosperity and Global Peace’”. Likewise, he will be in charge of the task of attract private sector investment y improve “the energy domain” of the countryto “reduce inflation, win the Artificial Intelligence arms race with China and expand diplomatic power”.
Meanwhile, Wright will be part of the National Energy Councilwhich will be created in January and will be made up of all Government agencies that participate in energy “production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation and permits,” to concentrate efforts and better manage tasks.
The appointment, however, must have the approval of the Senateunlike other positions, in which the request of the President-elect is enough.
Trump entrusted him with the task of reducing bureaucracy in his area, attracting private sector investment and improving the country’s “energy dominance” (AP)
Wright is known as the fracking magnate; He is executive director of the oil group Liberty Energythe second largest hydraulic billing company in the world, serving energy companies that have massively increased fossil fuel production in the country in recent years, through this oil and gas extraction process.
Due to his experience in the field and his work in energy matters, Trump considers him “one of the pioneers who helped launch the shale revolution American, which promoted energy independence and transformed global energy markets and geopolitics.
However, the businessman also became famous for his opinions on the climate crisiswhich generated great discomfort in a vast sector of American society, which views with fear the environmental consequences of these practices.
“There is no climate crisis and we are not in the middle of an energy transition either. The term carbon pollution is outrageous. There is no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy… “All energy sources have impacts on the world, both positive and negative,” he said some time ago in a post on his social networks. He even insisted during an interview that fossil fuels are “necessary” for society and thus criticized the voices that call for a transition towards more ecological sources.
Wright became famous for his opinions on the climate crisis and for promoting the use of fossil fuels (Europa Press)
Wright also sits on the board of directors of a company dedicated to modular nuclear reactorswhich has led him to talk, recently, about the potential of this energy.
During his campaign, Trump repeatedly referred to the issue of energy independence and the oil and gas boostwith promises of fracking expansionthe reactivation of liquefied natural gas exportsthe United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the overturning emissions standards for vehicles and power plantscontrary to what was promoted by the Joe Biden Administration.
“They wiped out their steel factories, decimated their coal jobs, attacked their oil and gas jobs, and sold their manufacturing jobs to China and other foreign nations around the world,” he criticized at one of his last rallies in Pennsylvania. .
(With information from AFP and EFE)
