{"id":20798,"date":"2016-05-29T17:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20798"},"modified":"2016-05-29T17:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:02:45","slug":"top-obama-energy-official-says-administration-rejects-keep-it-in-the-ground-as-climate-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20798","title":{"rendered":"Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects \u201cKeep It In The Ground\u201d As Climate Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects \u201cKeep It In The Ground\u201d As Climate Strategy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\u201c<\/span>We\u2019re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground\u2026that\u2019s not a\u00a0position.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the \u201cgrowing movement of keeping oil in the ground\u201d at the 2016 Columbia Global Energy Summit in\u00a0April.<\/p>\n

Since Chris Smith worked for more than a decade\u00a0for Chevron and Texaco, this answer should not surprise\u00a0anyone.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0Chris Smith now works for President Obama<\/a>\u00a0as assistant secretary of fossil energy, so when he says \u201cwe\u2019re certainly not advocating\u201d he is referring to the fact that the Obama Administration\u2019s Department of Energy does not support any strategy to keep oil in the\u00a0ground.<\/p>\n

And if you think Mr. Smith isn\u2019t in a position of authority in the Obama administration when it comes to oil policy, you might want to consider how he was introduced at the event by moderator Antoine\u00a0Halff:<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>[Smith is] Assistant secretary of energy for fossil fuels since 2014 but really at the heart of\u00a0R&D<\/span>\u00a0and policy development issues since the beginning of the first Obama administration. And Chris has had a huge role in the government\u2019s embrace of tight oil and shale, their benefits and the opportunities they represent\u2026after perhaps a somewhat lukewarm start early in the first Obama\u00a0administration.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So according to Halff, who came to Columbia\u2019s Center on Global Energy Policy from a position as chief oil analyst at the International Energy Agency, Chris Smith was instrumental in getting the Obama administration to \u201cembrace\u201d fracking for oil. And Smith is now saying that same administration certainly does not advocate keeping any oil in the ground.<\/p>\n

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Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects \u201cKeep It In The Ground\u201d As Climate Strategy \u201cWe\u2019re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground\u2026that\u2019s not a\u00a0position.\u201d This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the \u201cgrowing movement of keeping oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3193,13933,141,5317,328,369,11782,584,2847,588],"class_list":["post-20798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-christopher-smith","tag-climate-change","tag-desmog-blog","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-global-warming","tag-justin-mikulka","tag-obama","tag-obama-administration","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20799,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20798\/revisions\/20799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}