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Trump picks fracking firm CEO Chris Wright to be energy secretary
The Washington Post ^ | November 16, 2024 | Evan Halper`

Posted on 11/16/2024 2:53:22 PM PST by KingofZion

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he has selected Chris Wright, the head of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Department of Energy and to serve on a new National Energy Council.

Get the latest election news and results 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.”

Trump on Friday tapped North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to serve as interior secretary and as “energy czar” to oversee the new National Energy Council. The president-elect said the council will comprise all agencies and departments involved in the production, regulation and transportation of “ALL forms of American Energy.”

In Wright, Trump has chosen a skeptic of mainstream science on global warming who argues the “climate crisis” is a myth. The fracking executive runs a foundation focused on dispelling the conventional wisdom on climate change and promoting expanded fossil energy production as a solution to many of the world’s problems, an approach others say would drive dangerous levels of warming.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anwr; chriswright; deptofenergy; diesel; emergysecy; fracking; keystonexl
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Sounds like a great choice
1 posted on 11/16/2024 2:53:22 PM PST by KingofZion
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“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.”


2 posted on 11/16/2024 2:54:00 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

I’m sure Heels Harris will be thrilled. Did you know she was now a big fan of fracking?


3 posted on 11/16/2024 2:54:55 PM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: KingofZion

“the head of fracking company Liberty Energy”

Hey, no need to swear! Just say “that darn company.”


4 posted on 11/16/2024 2:55:00 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: KingofZion

Related.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4278926/posts

‘I Press My Own Buttons’: Al Gore Goes On Unhinged Rant During UN Climate Summit
MSN ^ | 16 November 2024 | Harold Hutchison

Posted on 11/16/2024, 4:04:44 PM by Alas Babylon!


5 posted on 11/16/2024 2:55:54 PM PST by abb
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To: KingofZion

IN YOUR FACE HAROLD!


6 posted on 11/16/2024 2:56:40 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: KingofZion

Yes.

Someone who gives a frack.


7 posted on 11/16/2024 2:57:27 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: KingofZion

Gas will be under $2 in 12 mos.


8 posted on 11/16/2024 2:59:55 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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That’s a good pick!

I would have preferred a real out-of-the-box thinker entrepreneur here like Musk.

I think Musk’s current assignment will be “DODGEd” by the bureaucratic state and end up as effective as the Grace Commission. His real ability won’t be used effectively.


9 posted on 11/16/2024 3:00:19 PM PST by Reily ( )
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To: KingofZion
Now that's a headline that warms the cockles of my heart.

Trump picks fracking firm CEO Chris Wright to be energy secretary


10 posted on 11/16/2024 3:04:23 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: KingofZion

Winning.


11 posted on 11/16/2024 3:05:22 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: KingofZion

I’d rather the entire department be closed down. Take the Nuclear Regulatory Agency away & be done.


12 posted on 11/16/2024 3:05:29 PM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: abb
‘I Press My Own Buttons’: Al Gore

So now he's an onanist?

13 posted on 11/16/2024 3:05:57 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: KingofZion

“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.”

Great quote. Because it’s true and concise.


14 posted on 11/16/2024 3:06:35 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: KingofZion

He’ll be a great choice if he opposes continuing to export RECORD amounts of US energy.


15 posted on 11/16/2024 3:06:55 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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DOE’s primary focus of value is nuclear waste issues.

Don’t fool yourselves. You want this all to be some sort of ideology matter, but nuclear waste poses a much larger threat to everything than . . . anything.

The solution in use right now is largely global and stupid. Waste is kept onsite at the nuclear reactor plant.

Right. Monumentally stupid.


16 posted on 11/16/2024 3:08:11 PM PST by Owen
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The US is the largest exporter of LNG to Europe.

Climate crisis, my gluteus maximus.


17 posted on 11/16/2024 3:08:12 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: KingofZion

With each appointment, Trump seems to be saying to the previous administration, to the left media,to the deep state who went after him.........well, he seems to be saying to them with each appointment and rightfully so.......

“So suck on that”

Love it!


18 posted on 11/16/2024 3:08:12 PM PST by vespa300
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To: KingofZion

He is the Wright man for the job that’s for sure.


19 posted on 11/16/2024 3:08:45 PM PST by HerrBlucher
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To: KingofZion

I hope it is.


20 posted on 11/16/2024 3:09:35 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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