Trump picks fracking company CEO Chris Wright as next Department of Energy secretary

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Published 4:26 PM EST, Sat November 16, 2024


CNN — President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named Chris Wright, the CEO of Denver-based fracking company Liberty Energy, as his pick to be the next secretary of the Department of Energy.

Wright will also serve as a member on the newly formed Council of National Energy, which Trump said will consist of all agencies involved in the “permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation” of energy. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum – Trump’s pick for secretary of the Department of the Interior – will be the chairman.

“Chris has been a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy. He has worked in Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Oil and Gas. Most significantly, Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution that fueled American Energy Independence, and transformed the Global Energy Markets and Geopolitics,” Trump wrote in a statement Saturday.

In addition to his company’s work on fracking oil and natural gas, Wright also sits on the board of a modular nuclear reactor company and has talked about the potential of nuclear energy. Developing nuclear energy has become a big focus of the Biden administration’s Energy Department. The department also houses the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency that maintains the nuclear stockpile.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/16/politics/chris-wright-energy-secretary-trump/index.html

[CurtEastPoint]

1. GD him to hell

[Ocelot II]

2. Every government henhouse will have its supervising fox.

[Silent Type]

3. I'm surprised they didn't say Harris endorsed fracking in her campaign.

[Montauk6]

6. Judging by the way the machine did surgical strikes with the campaign ads, they might have.

[brer cat]

4. Not a surprise. He is giving a big FU to America.

[Jacoby365]

5. "Council of National Energy"

Sounds like the beginning of nationalizing the oil industry. Government owned oil wells on public lands? Isn't this what Trump wants?

[jfz9580m]

7. God-I was wondering what was coming after the Zeldin pick

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/who-is-lee-zeldin-donald-trump-epa-nominee/

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Pick, Puts a Moderate Face on a Radical Plan

The former president has “made his anti-climate action, anti-environment agenda very clear.”

By tapping former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump opted to put his planned radical rollback of climate policy in the hands of a staunch ally who is skilled at projecting an image of a moderate conservationist.

He came closer than any Republican in 20 years to capturing his state’s highest office by campaigning on a pledge to overturn the state’s ban on fracking.

“I think at times he spoke moderately when it was convenient to do so, but I don’t think that’s the Lee Zeldin that New York has seen for at least the past four years,” said Sam Bernhardt, the New York-based political director for Food & Water Action. He thinks the most telling item in Zeldin’s record is his vote against certifying the 2020 election.

“He did that because Trump told him to, so I think we can extrapolate that most of Lee Zeldin’s work at EPA will likewise be things that Trump has told him to do,” Bernhardt said.

In a Fox News interview on Monday, shortly after his selection was announced, Zeldin made clear that the president-elect has given him a long list of regulations to roll back.

“The president was talking about unleashing economic prosperity through the EPA,” Zeldin said. “There are regulations that the left wing of this country have been advocating through regulatory power that end up causing businesses to go in the wrong direction. And President Trump, when he called me up, gosh, he was rattling off 15, 20, different priorities.”

[Karasu]

8. A science denier for Energy. Because of course.

And a literal oil baron, to boot.

What fucking century are we living in again?

[Martin68]

9. Trump's scorched earth policy is being signaled from the get go. His promises to wealthy corporations that supported him

will be honored.