US President-elect Donald Trump nominated fracking magnate and local weather change skeptic Chris Wright as power secretary on Saturday, tasking him with “cutting red tape” which the brand new administration hopes will drive funding in fossil fuels.
“As Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, cutting red tape, and ushering in a new ‘Golden Age of American Prosperity and Global Peace,’” Trump mentioned in an announcement.
Wright is founding father of Liberty Vitality, which serves the power firms which have massively elevated US fossil gas manufacturing in recent times by extracting oil and gasoline from shale fields in a course of often called “fracking.”
In a LinkedIn submit a 12 months in the past, Wright denied that there was a “climate crisis.”
“There is no climate crisis and we are not in the midst of an energy transition either,” he mentioned, including that “the term carbon pollution is outrageous” as a result of all life trusted carbon dioxide.
“There is no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy, all energy sources have impacts on the world both positive and negative,” he added.
Trump referred to as him “one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution that fueled American Energy Independence, and transformed the Global Energy Markets and Geopolitics.”
