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Senate confirms fracking CEO Chris Wright to lead Energy Department
The Hill ^ | 2/3/25 | Rachel Frazin

Posted on 02/03/2025 3:44:30 PM PST by CFW

The Senate on Monday confirmed Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the Energy Department.

The vote was 59-38.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle indicated support for his nomination during his confirmation hearing, and he sailed out of the committee on a 15-5 vote.

“He’s a scientist who has invested his life around energy. He is indeed an unrestrained enthusiast for fossil fuels in almost every regard, but he studied nuclear,” Democrat John Hickenlooper (Colo.) said during Wright’s confirmation hearing. “His first years of working were in solar. He has experience in wind.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chriswright; drill; energydept; oil
The media is not having a great day.
1 posted on 02/03/2025 3:44:30 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

A bad day for the media is a good day for the U.S.


2 posted on 02/03/2025 3:46:49 PM PST by madison10
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To: CFW

Great, now shut down all wind and solar subsidies and refuse any new permits.


3 posted on 02/03/2025 3:47:27 PM PST by Fungi
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To: CFW
"..he acknowledged that climate change is happening, saying it is “a global issue, it is a real issue, it is a challenging issue.”

Confronting the climate change fear mongers is a very challenging issue.

4 posted on 02/03/2025 3:47:49 PM PST by marktwain
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To: CFW

Winning!


5 posted on 02/03/2025 3:50:09 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: CFW

https://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-reverses-biden-lng-pause-restores-trump-energy-dominance-agenda

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), effective today, is ending the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pause and returning to regular order following direction given by President Donald J. Trump to “unleash American Energy Dominance.” The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) is directed to resume consideration of pending applications to export American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries without a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States in accordance with the Natural Gas Act. Proper consideration of LNG export applications is required by law and shall proceed accordingly.


step one rename the office of fossil energy and carbon managment.


6 posted on 02/03/2025 3:51:26 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: CFW

Drill baby Drill.


7 posted on 02/03/2025 3:54:29 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: CFW

Drill Baby Drill
Frack Baby Frack


8 posted on 02/03/2025 3:55:06 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: CFW

Great. Now speed it up Thune. This isn’t our daddies GOP.

FASTER!

Get with it or leave.


9 posted on 02/03/2025 3:57:53 PM PST by Fledermaus (GOP RINOs - Get on Board or Get Out!)
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To: Pollard

>>Drill Baby Drill
>>Frack Baby Frack

Thorium Baby Thorium. (’Nuke Baby Nuke’ might be taken the wrong way)


10 posted on 02/03/2025 4:17:20 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Fungi

If farmer Brown wants to make a wind farm on his property, that’s his right. It’s the right to be a dum bass and go bankrupt. No subsidies.


11 posted on 02/03/2025 4:42:02 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand there we a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: marktwain

I think everyone on this board agrees there is climate change.

Most of us here agree it’s also natural and by no means caused by man and man’s activates.


12 posted on 02/03/2025 5:20:56 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Execute Order 66....)
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To: CFW

It’s fracturing or a frac

Not fracking


13 posted on 02/03/2025 5:41:36 PM PST by South Dakota (Vance / Trump...2028)
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This is YUGE!

The energy department will actually be focused on generating energy instead of purple hair dei types.


14 posted on 02/03/2025 5:56:18 PM PST by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President)
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To: South Dakota
Ok....It's fracturing time!


15 posted on 02/03/2025 6:00:30 PM PST by xp38
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To: CFW
Senate confirms fracking CEO Chris Wright to lead Energy Department

More Awesome Sauce!

16 posted on 02/03/2025 7:04:56 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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Fracking….

Battlestar Galactica.

So say we all!!!


17 posted on 02/03/2025 7:24:05 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: CFW

Woo hoo!!


18 posted on 02/03/2025 7:36:22 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Pollard; CFW

Drill Baby Drill
Frack Baby Frack
Nuclear Nuclear Nuclear


19 posted on 02/04/2025 4:51:53 AM PST by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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