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Senate Confirms Chris Wright to Lead Department of Energy
Denver fracking contractor Chris Wright is a scientist and engineer who supports fossil fuels and renewable energy development.
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Denver fracking contractor Chris Wright is a scientist and engineer who supports fossil fuels and renewable energy development.
The Senate has confirmed Colorado fracking services contractor Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy (DOE) in its management of the nationâs nuclear weapons stockpile, national labs in energy development, and in implementing President Donald Trumpâs energy policies.
The Senate endorsed Wright to serve as energy secretary on Feb. 3 in a 59-38Â vote that drew objections from some Democrats over his support for fossil fuel development in taking the reins of DOEâs 14,000-employee workforce and its $52 billion annual budget.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) in a mid-afternoon address before a largely empty chamber praised Wright as uniquely qualified to lead DOE in a time of sweeping technological breakthroughs and âall-of-the-aboveâ energy diversification.
âOne of the most important resources is Americaâs ability to innovateâthe knowledge and capabilities we have to expand the realm of possibility,â he said. âItâs a big part of the work of the energy department, and itâs what Chris Wright has spent his life doing. Mr. Wright calls himself, and I quote, âa science geek turned energy nerd turned lifelong energy entrepreneur.ââ
Trump nominated Wright for the DOE post in a Nov. 16 Truth Social post, calling him âone of the pioneers who helped launch the American Shale Revolution that fueled American Energy Independence.â
An MIT-educated scientist and engineer, Wright is the CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, one of the nationâs leading fracking contractors. Thune said the DOE nominee has experience, knowledge, and investments across the energy development spectrum.Wright âwill be notable among secretaries of energy for his depth of experience,â Thune said. âHe has experience in nuclear energy, solar, geothermal, wind power, oil, and natural gas. Heâs worked on innovations and technology that have reshaped the energy industry, and heâs seen what energy can do to improve human lives, bring people out of poverty, and remake entire societies.
âChris Wright is passionate about energy,â Thune said. âHe knows itâs one of our most important assets, and heâs ready to get to work.â
Republican Sens. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, also urged fellow senators to confirm Wright.DOE âis a powerhouse that can help make or break our economy, our national security. and our ability to lead on the world stage,â Lee said during a rebuke of the Biden administrationâs energy policies that, he said, raised energy costs, cost American jobs, and weakened national security.
âChris Wright understands that affordable, abundant energy is imperative to our national security,â Lee said. âItâs what allows families to heat their homes in the winter without going broke. Itâs what enables businesses to grow, hire, and compete globally, and itâs what keeps America secure, independent, and free from the whims of foreign suppliers.â
During his Jan. 15 nomination hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committeeâstaged on his 60th birthdayâWright made it clear heâd be an advocate and applicator of Trumpâs âdrill baby drillâ energy policies.
While vowing to slash permitting timelines, encourage natural gas exports, and accelerate electric grid expansion, he also conveyed a nuanced appreciation for renewable energy development in expressing support for an âall-of-the-aboveâ energy policy.
He acknowledged climate change is real repeatedly during the hearing but with the caveat that climate change alarmism, as encoded into policy by the Biden administration, is causing as much harm to the environment as it is designed to prevent while driving up energy costs.
Wright is an investor in Fervo Energy, a Texas âgreen energyâ company that uses fracking technologies to develop geothermal resources, a board member of Oklo Inc., a nuclear technology company, and EMX Royalty, a royalty payment company for mineral rights and mining rights.
During his nomination hearing, Wright was introduced by Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), a former Colorado governor, who said while they âdisagree on a lot of things,â Wright is a great fit to lead the DOE.
âHeâs, indeed, an unrestrained enthusiast for fossil fuels in almost every regard, but he studied nuclear. His first years working were in solar. He has experience in wind. He is a practitioner and a key innovator around geothermal,â the senator continued. âHe is a scientist who is open to discussion, and he is, again, a scientist who is a successful entrepreneur and has that ability to assess what is possible and what isnât.â
Wright told senators how important the energy sector is to the United States.
âThe reason I sit in front of you today is because President-elect Trump and I share a passion for energy and an instinctual understanding that energy is not a sector of the economyâitâs the sector of the economy that enables everything else we do,â Wright said.
He said he'd administer an energy policy that safeguards âAmerican quality of life, American economic strength, our geopolitical power, and what the possibilities are for the future, how we can make our childrenâs and grandchildrenâs lives so much better than ours.â
Under questioning, Wright affirmed opposition to many provisions and allocations authorized by 2021âs Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and 2022âs CHIPS & Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Biden administrationâs three signature âgreen energyâ bills. He supports efforts to unplug some âauto pilotâ funding streams, especially from the IRA.
The IRA rolls out 10 years of sustained tax credits, low-interest loans, and grant programs that, by some estimates, could top $1 trillion to subsidize investment in renewable energy generation, supply chains, job creation, advanced manufacturing, and electric grid expansion.
Asked by Democrats if heâd âprotect clean energy provisions in the IRAâ and resist âimpoundmentâ of previously approved DOE funding, Wright would only say heâd âfollow the statutes and laws of the United States.â
Asked by Republicans if heâd follow recommendations in a December Inspector General report citing concerns with how DOEâs Loan Program Office is allocating loans, he said heâd âimmediatelyâ suspend $25 billion in âunfinalizedâ authorized authorizations.
Wright advanced to the full Feb. 4 Senate confirmation after the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee endorsed his nomination in a 15â5 Jan. 23 vote.
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