As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, reducing administrative barriers, and ushering in a new ‘golden age of American prosperity and world peace’Donald Trump said in a statement.
Chris Wright will also be a member of the brand new National Energy Council (CNE), the creation of which was announced Friday by the president-elect, and whose mission will be to overseeing America’s path to energy dominance.
His candidacy was supported by companies in the oil sector, underlines the Financial Times.
Chris Wright runs the company Liberty Energy, which he founded in 2011, and specializes in hydraulic fracturing, a polluting method of extracting hydrocarbons.
This climate skeptic judged, in a post on his LinkedIn account a year ago, thatthere is no climate crisis and we are not in the middle of an energy transition either.
The term carbon pollution is scandalous because all life depends on carbon dioxide, he added, also refuting the terms clean energy or dirty energy, all energy sources have both positive and negative impacts on the world.
Donald Trump, in the press release announcing this appointment, welcomed a leading energy entrepreneurWho has worked in nuclear, solar, geothermal, and oil and gas.
Most importantly, Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American shale revolution that fueled American energy independence and transformed global energy markets and geopoliticsonce again greeted the president-elect.
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The names of future ministers and officials in the new Trump administration began to be revealed barely a week after the election, and have continued this week.
And the names are controversial: Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth, chosen to head the Department of Defense – and accused in 2017 of sexual assault -, vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr at Health, defector from Democratic Party, accused of being pro-Russian, Tulsi Gabbard, in Intelligence, or even, in Justice, the ultra-Trumpist Matt Gaetz, with no experience in the field and who was suspected of relationship with a minor girl.
As for Elon Musk, he will head a commission forgovernment effectiveness.
A graduate of the prestigious MIT and UC Berkeley, Chris Wright founded the company Pinnacle Technologies in 1992, whose innovations help launch commercial shale gas production and create a hydraulic fracture mapping industryspecifies the Liberty Energy website.
He later served as chairman of Stroud Energy, one of the first producers of shale gas, before selling it to shale pioneer Range Resources in 2006.
Chris Wright resides in Colorado with his wife.
Hydraulic fracturing had been an important subject of the electoral campaign, Donald Trump having accused his Democratic competitor Kamala Harris of wanting to ban the process, which she had refuted.
In 2019, then a candidate in the Democratic primary, she spoke out in favor of a ban, before reversing this position, particularly damaging to voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, where the sector is important.
