Trump names fracking executive Chris Wright vigor secretary
Trump names fracking executive Chris Wright vigor secretary
Getty ImagesDonald Trump has named oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright as his pick to navigator the US vigor Department.
He is expected to fulfil the president-elect’s commitment to boost fossil fuel production – an aim summed by the campaign slogan “drill, baby, drill”.
Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty vigor, which serves companies extracting oil and gas from shale fields in a procedure known as “fracking”.
Trump wrote in a statement: “Chris was one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution that fuelled American vigor Independence, and transformed the Global vigor Markets and Geopolitics.
“As Secretary of vigor, Chris will be a key chief, driving recent concept, cutting red tape, and ushering in a recent Golden Age of American Prosperity and Global tranquility.”
Wright is a climate transformation sceptic who previously said he does not worry where vigor comes from, “as long as it is secure, reliable, affordable and betters human lives”.
In a video posted to his LinkedIn profile last year, he said: “There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an vigor shift either.”
Wright will also be appointed to a recent Council of National vigor, the Trump campaign said.
The council will oversee “the path to US vigor dominance by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy,” Trump said.
The Trump campaign cited Wright’s work with Pinnacle Technologies, a corporation he founded before Liberty vigor, as being critical to the US’s fracking boom, which has made the country the largest oil producer in the globe.
Wright’s appointment is a triumph for the fossil fuel industry, which expects a boom under the next administration. Trump has pledged to boost production of US fossil fuels rather than investing in renewable vigor sources such as wind power – a objective Wright will be instrumental in driving.
The president-elect has pledged to open areas such as the Arctic wilderness to oil drilling, which he argues would lower vigor costs.
During his first presidency, Trump rolled back hundreds of environmental protections and made America the first country to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.
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