Liberty CEO Chris Wright Is Happy To Talk About ESG And Electric Fracking

Liberty CEO Chris Wright Is Happy To Talk About ESG And Electric Fracking

DENVER, CO - JANUARY 17: Liberty Oilfield Services CEO Chris Wright at Liberty January 17, 2018. ... [+] (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images) A former colleague in the oil and gas business asked me the other day why I have invested so much time and energy this year interviewing and writing about executives and companies in the rare earth minerals and renewable energy space. I told him that there were two simple reasons for this: 1) I wanted to increase my knowledge base about this growing sector of the energy business, and couldn't figure out a better way to do that than by interviewing the leaders in it; and 2) those executives will actually talk to me. One of the truly odd aspects about being a contributor for Forbes. com has been the fact that most CEOs and other senior executives in the oil and gas business won't talk on the record to me, a guy who spent his entire career in that same business. This is especially true related to their companies' efforts in the realm of ESG (Environment, Social and Governance), where they have received so much pressure to perform from investors and customers