Oh Well!!! Shitstain Nominates Fracking Company CEO And Loud/Proud Climate Liar For Energy Secretary

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has selected Chris Wright, the head of fracking company Liberty Energy and a skeptic of mainstream climate science, to lead the Department of Energy and to serve on a new National Energy Council. In his announcement, Trump credited Wright as “one of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution,” adding that “as Secretary of Energy, Chris will be a key leader, driving innovation, cutting red tape.”

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Wright is an MIT graduate who developed new techniques for fracking — extracting natural gas by creating cracks in the Earth’s bedrock — that helped advance the shale gas revolution. “There is no ‘climate crisis,’” Wright said in a video he posted on LinkedIn last year, adding that “the only thing resembling a crisis with respect to climate change is the regressive, opportunity-squelching policies justified in the name of climate change.”

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Wright’s arguments that temperatures and sea levels are not rising quickly also clash with the IPCC’s findings. While other oil and gas companies acknowledge such findings and say they are working to reduce emissions, Wright is among the industry executives who take a defiant approach, attacking policies that call for shifting away from fossil fuels. Wright has also attacked critics of the U.S. fossil fuel industry. In 2021, when North Face refused to make branded jackets for a Texas-based oil and gas firm, Wright made a YouTube video slamming the leaders of the outdoor clothing company as hypocrites, saying they rely on synthetic fabrics derived from oil and gas.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/energy-secretary-trump-chris-wright/