From Climate Depot

By Marc Morano

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By Lisa Friedman

Excerpt:

Mr. Wright said the focus in the United States to transition away from fossil fuels had hurt the country. It’s a message he said he intended to take on a multileg trip next week to Europe, where he will encourage countries to buy more American gas. The United States is currently the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas as well as the largest producer of oil.

“Europe is in the midst of almost completely deindustrializing the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Europe’s commitments to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet. He delivered those remarks on Friday to the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington research organization.

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“Europe is in the midst of almost completely deindustrializing the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Europe’s commitments to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

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He called the 2015 Paris agreement, in which the United States and nearly every other country pledged to reduce greenhouse gases, “silly.”

“Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important,” Mr. Wright said. “In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.”

Chris Wright, who travels to Europe next week to promote American gas, called climate change “not incredibly important.”

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Mr. Wright said the focus in the United States to transition away from fossil fuels had hurt the country. It’s a message he said he intended to take on a multileg trip next week to Europe, where he will encourage countries to buy more American gas. The United States is currently the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas as well as the largest producer of oil.

“Europe is in the midst of almost completely deindustrializing the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution,” Mr. Wright said, referring to Europe’s commitments to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet. He delivered those remarks on Friday to the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington research organization.

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Mr. Wright suggested, without citing evidence, that a damaged wind turbine blade from a different project, Vineyard Wind, that washed up on beaches of Nantucket last year occurred because those approvals were rushed. Mr. Wright blamed what he described as a misplaced emphasis in the Biden administration on tackling climate change and promoting clean energy.

“These were permitted rather quickly,” Mr. Wright said. “If you do something fast and quickly, because we’re in a crisis and it must happen, bad things happen.”

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Mr. Wright’s remarks came as the Trump administration has radically fast-tracked permits for oil, gas and mining because the president has asserted the United States faces an energy crisis.