Fracking boss Wright confirmed as US energy secretary

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Fracking boss Wright confirmed as US energy secretary

The US Senate has confirmed Chris Wright, a fracking executive, to be President Donald Trump’s energy secretary.

The vote was 59-38.

Wright, 60, the CEO of Liberty Energy since 2011 has said he will step down from the company once confirmed.

He wrote in a Liberty report last year he believes human-caused climate change is real, but that its hazards are “distant and uncertain.” He has also said top-down governmental policies to curb it are destined to fail.

Wright will be in charge of an agency that has about a $US50 billion ($A81 billion) budget with about half of that going to maintain the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile.

He will also be in charge of the department’s 17 national labs that cover everything from research fusion energy to super-computing.

The centrepiece of Trump’s energy policy is “drill, baby, drill,” and he has pledged to dismantle what he calls Democrats’ “green new scam” in favour of boosting production of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal that emit planet-warming greenhouse gases.

“President Trump shares my passion for energy,” Wright said at his confirmation hearing last month.

Wright promised he would “work tirelessly to implement (Trump’s) bold agenda as an unabashed steward for all sources of affordable, reliable and secure American energy.”

That includes oil and natural gas, coal, nuclear power and hydropower, along with wind and solar power and geothermal energy, he said.

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