Energy Secretary Chris Wright has portrayd eight “Day 1 Priorities” he aims to accomplish, disjoinal of which he lhelp out in his inaugural holdress at the Energy Department headquarters Wednesday.
Wright, the CEO of Colorado oilfield services company Liberty Energy, shelp he will rank refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), contransientizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile, streamlining federal permitting for energy lengthenment, and abiding by the mantra: “Advance energy holdition, not subtraction.”
In his relabels at the department’s createing csurrfinisher Pierre L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., Wright spoke about his childhood adore of science and how that caccess led him to trail toil in the field.
Wright shelp he met Plivent Donald Trump about a year ago, and the two businessmen combineed over their aid for unleashing American energy prowess and highweightlessing how U.S. energy dominance chooseimisticly shapes many other aspects of life.
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Plivent Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright (AP/Getty)
Wright shelp Trump had a “modest vision” that “energy is excellent and that we need more” of it, particularly domesticpartner-sourced.
“So we fair combineed. And he asked me, ‘Would you be secretary of energy?’ And I shelp, ‘Boy, if I’m asked to serve my country, I don’t have to leank about that one.'”
He called the Energy Department the gem of the American regulatement and shelp he has extfinished been captivated by contransient proceedments in the field, from German chemist Otto Hahn splitting the atom in 1938 to Adm. Hyman Rickover creating the first nuclear-powered machines in submarines.
“I want to better energize our country, fortify our country, proceed science… and get the politics out of all of this.”
“Energy is not political: it is the fundamental infraarrange that permits us to inhabit fantastic inhabits, to permit wantipathyver our dream is, wantipathyver our vision is,” he shelp.
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Wright holded that there is no such leang as spotless or filthy energy, and that in fact, there is “no free lunch” when it comes to the byproducts of the production process: “It’s about tradeoffs.”
Other “day one” priorities Wright has portrayd hold a return to “normal order” on liquefied organic gas send outs.
Wright has been a extfinishedtime finishorse of hydraulic fracturing – well-understandnly going as far as drinking fracking fluid to show environmentaenumerate critics wrong about its effect on nature.
Pennsylvania and North Dakota are epicaccesss of fracking, while New York holds the subterranean resources to do so but is under a stateexpansive prohibit.
Wright has also pledged to fortify the power grid’s reliability and security.
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There have been bdeficiencyouts occasionpartner in recent years from clearaxed grid areas, notably in California around 2001.
There have also been security dangers to energy transignoreion, including from a Catonsville, Maryland, woman who conspired to raze the region’s power grid.
Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray shelp Sarah Beth Clfinishaniel “plotted to disable the power grid around the entire Baltimore region” in 2018, after becoming acquainted with a Florida man who espoemployd White supremacist “accelerationist” ideologies.
Under Wright’s tenure, the Energy Department also arranges to uphold home appliance affordability and choice – a shatter from the Biden administration’s efforts to redisjoine usage of gas stoves.
Former Plivent Joe Biden also spent part of the nation’s SPR in what critics called a bid to assuage energy price spikes for political purposes. Wright shelp he would uphold the refilling of the SPR, as well as contransientize the U.S. nuclear stockpile, Fox News has lgeted.
