Energy sec. Wright Draw priorities 1. Days: Completion of SPR, Promoting “Energy Adding rather than Subtraction”
Energy secretary Chris Wright He marked eight priorities of the “first day” he wants to achieve, several of which he became in his inaugural address at the Energy Department headquarters on Wednesday.
Wright, CEO of Colorado Oilfield Company Liberty Energy, said he would give priority in the charging of a strategic oil reserve (SPR), modernization of US nuclear supplies, simplifying federal energy development and adherence energy rather than taking away. “
In his objection to the building of the Department near Pierre L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, DC, Wright spoke of his childhood love for science and how that focus brought him to continue working on the ground.
Wright said he met President Donald Trump About a year ago, and the two businessmen related to their support to release American energy capabilities and emphasize that US energy dominance had a positive effect on many other aspects of life.
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Wright said Trump had a “simple vision” that “energy is good and we need more”, especially in the country.
“So we just connected. And he asked me,” Would you be your energy secretary? “And I said, ‘My boyfriend, if he asks me to serve my country, I don’t have to think about it.”
He called the Energy Department with the gem of the US government and said that he had long been entering him with contemporary progress on the field, from the German chemist Otto Hahn, dividing the atom in 1938 into the ADM. Hyman Rickover, creating the first machines with nuclear drive into submarines.
“I want to better energize our country, strengthen our country, improve science … and get politics out of all that.”
“Energy is not political: it is a basic infrastructure that allows us to live great lives, to allow everything our dream, whatever our vision is,” he said.
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Wright added that there is no pure or dirty energy and that in reality there is no “free lunch” when it comes to by -products of the production process: “These are compromises.”
Other “first day” priorities that Wright pointed out include a return to a “regular order” on liquefied export of natural gas.
Wright was a longtime advocate of hydraulic breakage – known next Drinking fracking fluid To prove critics of environmental behavior wrong with its influence on nature.
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Wright also committed to strengthen the reliability and safety of the electric network.
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In recent years, occasionally, occasionally existed of overcrowded grids, especially in California around 2001.
There were also security threats for energy transfer, including from Catonsville, Maryland, a woman who conspired to destroy the energy network of the region.
The then FBI Director Christopher Wray said that Sarah Beth Clendaniel “planned to disable the electric network around the entire Baltimore region” 2018, after being acquainted with the Florida man who advocated white superior “acceleratistist” ideology.
Under Wright’s mandate, the Energy Department also plans to promote accessibility and choice of home devices – a break from the effort of a Biden administration to limit the use of gas stoves.
Former President Joe Biden also spent part of the SPR of the state in what critics called the offer to relieve the jump in energy prices for political purposes. Wright said he would promote SPR charging, as well as modernizing the US nuclear stock, Fox News found out.