BREAKING: Trump announces fossil fuel magnate Chris Wright as his Secretary of Energy.

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https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1857893475418779766

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Trump Picks Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright To Lead Department Of Energy
OAN Staff
Abril Elfi
3:08 PM – Saturday, November 16, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he has selected CEO of Liberty Energy Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy in his new administration.

On Saturday, Trump released a statement announcing Wright’s position in his new cabinet.

    “I am thrilled to announce that Chris Wright will be joining my Administration as both United States Secretary of Energy, and Member of the newly formed Council of National Energy,” Trump said. “Wright has been a leading technologist and entrepreneur in Energy.”

    “He has worked in Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Oil and Gas,” Trump’s statement read. “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.”

According to Liberty Energy’s website, Wright earned a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. He also pursued graduate studies in electrical engineering at both the University of California, Berkeley, and MIT. ...

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@Smokin Joe - I bet you knew about Liberty intimately up there in the Williston as I did at one time.

Liberty was a forward-thinking company who was very innovative in its approach to gaining more access of production to the wellbore.

This might be a guy who can revolutionize new processes and concepts to not only hydrocarbons but all forms of energy,

Am very pleased by this pick,

One improvement to the DOE I do hope Congress does is to spin off from the DOE the massive expenditures and attention toward nuclear cleanup and those directed at defense weaponry. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/doe-fy-2025-budget-approps-summary-v2.pdf

It should not be here but in the DOD.

Then DOE can truly concentrate on energy procurement, security, growth, diverse solutions and efficiencies which is their real forte.

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some more low-hanging fruit.

Waste Of The Day: DOE Paid For Useless Asbestos Training
by Zerohedge
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024 -
Topline: The Department of Energy spent $153,616 to train employees in asbestos safety between 2015 and 2022. But the company providing the classes was never certified by the Environmental Protection Agency, meaning most of the training must be redone at a cost of $93,175, per a new inspector general report.

Key facts: The DOE pays the Battelle Energy Alliance to run the Idaho National Laboratory, known for its research on nuclear energy. Asbestos professionals at the lab must be trained according to strict guidelines laid out in a 1990 federal law, as is the case for every public building.

Battelle Energy Alliance has paid its subcontractor, D&D Environmental Consulting, for 8,000 hours of asbestos training for 236 employees since 2007. Last year, a whistleblower told the DOE inspector general that D&D’s accreditation from the EPA had expired in 2015.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/waste-day-doe-paid-useless-asbestos-training

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe - I bet you knew about Liberty intimately up there in the Williston as I did at one time.

Liberty was a forward-thinking company who was very innovative in its approach to gaining more access of production to the wellbore.

This might be a guy who can revolutionize new processes and concepts to not only hydrocarbons but all forms of energy,

Am very pleased by this pick,

One improvement to the DOE I do hope Congress does is to spin off from the DOE the massive expenditures and attention toward nuclear cleanup and those directed at defense weaponry. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-06/doe-fy-2025-budget-approps-summary-v2.pdf

It should not be here but in the DOD.

Then DOE can truly concentrate on energy procurement, security, growth, diverse solutions and efficiencies which is their real forte.

I knew of Liberty, but by the time the fracs are done, I'm long gone. I'm there while we're drilling.
I am very hopeful that Wright can steer our energy portfolio in a sane and reliable direction, without waging war on traditional sources which have done tremendously in cleaning up emissions, both from smokestacks and production sites. Yes, coal should be part of that mix, too, because we have hundreds of years supply.

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Energy Realism and Climate Pragmatism at the Department of Energy
What Chris Wright, Donald Trump's nominee to lead DOE, thinks about climate and energy

Roger Pielke Jr.
Nov 19, 2024
 
He’s a climate denier!

That is the standard reaction of many in the climate lobby when encountering views on climate and energy deviating from the monomaniacal view that climate is the world’s single-most important issue.

Reactions from climate advocates to the nomination of Chris Wright,1 CEO of Liberty Energy, to serve in Donald Trump’s cabinet as Secretary of Energy have followed this tired and lazy pattern. Here are some examples:

Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL): “Chris Wright is a climate denier who prioritizes the wants of energy producers over the needs of American consumers.”

Sierra Club: “Chris Wright is a climate denier who has profited off of polluting our communities and endangering our health and future.”

The Washington Post: “Climate crisis skeptic is Trump’s top energy pick”2

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/energy-realism-and-climate-pragmatism

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Trump’s energy secretary Wright promises to be climate cartel’s nightmare
By
Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.
|
November 23rd, 2024
 
As if the election of Donald Trump, who has called human-caused climate change a hoax, weren’t enough to darken the days of climate activists and subsidy-dependent green energy companies, his naming of fracking magnate Chris Wright to head the Department of Energy underscores the radical change in direction coming to Washington in January.

President Trump, who has vowed to end electric vehicle mandates and expressed his loathing for offshore wind turbines, has found a kindred spirit in Mr. Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, a Denver oil and natural gas fracking service company.

The president-elect has credited him as “one of the pioneers who helped launch the Shale Revolution.” Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Wright rejects the narrative that the use of fossil fuels is driving a climate crisis.

https://www.cfact.org/2024/11/23/trumps-energy-secretary-wright-promises-to-be-climate-cartels-nightmare/

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Here's how much I trust the climate data:

It's almost 2025.

Don't forget to set your thermometers ahead by 2 degrees Fahrenheit.