While it is important to make sure it is done safely and responsibly, “unconventional techniques for releasing fossil fuels provides a softer imprint on the land in many ways and creates the ability to extract more natural gas or oil from the same formations that may have been uneconomic before.” “It can be done safely and responsibly,” she told Amanpour. “There's a lot of misinformation about fracking,” Jewell said, “and I'm probably in a pretty unique position as the Secretary of Interior who's actually served as a petroleum engineer and fracked wells myself.” It is a hugely controversial technique both in the United States and abroad, where it is becoming increasingly popular. “To prepare our lands for climate change but also to help stand up renewable energy.”Ī massive amount of energy development is occurring in the United States in the form of fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, a complicated method for extracting natural gas that was once unreachable. “We are in a privileged position to actually do something about that,” she said. To her colleagues, she said, it is “very clear” that things are changing in the environment from new, invasive species aided by changing temperatures to wildfires burning so hot that plants are unable to regenerate as they once did after fires. The Department of the Interior, she told Amanpour, is uniquely placed to address climate change because – not in spite – of its dual mandate to both protect the environment and apportion natural resources.
“I also know that natural resources are critical to driving our economy.” “There are ways that we can find energy, exploit our resources and do so in a way that is softer on the planet than we have in the past,” Jewell said. “It's a false choice.”Ī new major study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due out later this month, says that scientists are now 95% certain that humans are responsible for global warming. “You can't make a choice between having jobs and having resources and having a great environment,” she said from Washington.
“I feel privileged to be in a unique position of understanding how we must balance both” conservation and exploitation, or extraction of natural resources like oil and gas, she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday. secretary of the interior, she is responsible for both the conservation and exploitation of about twenty percent of America’s land – that owned by the federal government. Indeed, the contradiction is built right into her job: As U.S. She is a petroleum engineer turned conservationist.
She is a CEO turned government regulator. Is Sally Jewell a contradiction in terms?
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