Chris Wright, Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Energy, has acknowledged climate change is real, but said in a video he made last year that “there is no climate crisis.”
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, seen here in 2018, to be energy secretary in his next administration. President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to tap a Colorado fracking executive to head the country’s energy policy prompted hope of a fossil-fuel boom for the state’s oil and gas industry and fears among environmentalists that climate change will not be taken seriously enough under his leadership.
Wright grew up in metro Denver and in 2011 founded Liberty Energy, which provides fracking services across the U.S. and Canada. Liberty Energy is not a direct producer of crude oil and natural gas and is similar to the industry giant Halliburton. Liberty helps operators with all of the work that goes into fracking and provides the equipment needed.
“I’ve been disappointed that he’s been characterized as a climate skeptic,” she said. “He believes that it is a global challenge, but it’s far from the greatest threat to human life. This is an area where it’s not fair to classify someone as black and white. We can make peoples’ lives better and we can get cleaner.”
“They’re a behind-the-scenes company doing all of the oil and gas industry’s dirty work,” Nichols said. “This guy bleeds oil through and through.” Wright has said energy development is the key to improving the lives of people in underdeveloped and poor countries, but Garrett Royer, acting director of the“His industry has enriched itself as water and air pollution shortens life expectancies and endangers our planet’s very future,” Royer said.
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