Charles Kennedy writes on the OilPrice website about a report from POLITICO’s E&E News that the Trump administration is aiming to replace a top-ranking official at the International Energy Agency. The US Administration is looking to push changes from the inside, no doubt.
White House Looks to Oust IEA’s Second-in-Command
The United States looks to replace the deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the second-in-command role in the agency that is usually reserved for a U.S. representative, POLITICO’s E&E News reported on Thursday, quoting former U.S. officials and energy industry insiders familiar with the plan.
American Mary Burce Warlick is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the IEA. Warlick is a retired career diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia. Warlick has held a variety of senior leadership positions at the U.S. Department of State, National Security Council, Department of Defense, and represented the U.S. on the IEA Governing Board, before becoming deputy executive director in 2021.
The U.S. has been putting pressure on the Paris-based agency as the Trump Administration and many Republicans in Congress are not happy with the IEA’s pivot in recent years to promoting the energy transition at the expense of the still-needed fossil fuels.
The U.S. Administration is looking to push changes from the inside—that’s why replacing Warlick has been considered in recent months, according to POLITICO’s E&E News’ sources.
“They’re going to get someone they trust and that person is going to fight from the inside out,” a Republican energy lobbyist with close ties to the U.S. Department of Energy told POLITICO.
The tension between the Trump Administration and the IEA has escalated in recent months.
A House committee last month approved a bill that the U.S. withdraw its funding to the IEA as the Republican lawmakers consider that the agency has strayed from its mission to safeguard energy security and has been pushing green energy policies instead.
Earlier in July, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said that the United States could abandon the IEA if the organization, created in the aftermath of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, doesn’t return to forecasting energy demand without strongly promoting green energy.
“We will do one of two things: we will reform the way the IEA operates or we will withdraw,” Wright told Bloomberg in an interview in the middle of July.
“My strong preference is to reform it,” Secretary Wright added.
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Couple of facts. In the 2000s and 2010s the IEA was an oil & gas hold
out. Its forcasts with respect to reneweables (both volumes and LCOEs)
were a global joke.
I have it on good authority (from insiders) that it has only been
recently that the fossil nutters were sorted out and more sensible
reports produced. There is still tension in the org.
The Europeans would be well advised to tell the United States of Trump
to leave. The UST is a wrecker and Trump is only interested in finding
ways to make money.
The less the EU & indeed any region has to do with UST – the better.
The historical description of International Energy Agency policy offered by pinkspeedily is absolutely accurate. Indeed so hostile were earlier IEA managements to anything that questioned fossil fuel dominance that an earlier , German, CEO once demanded a recolouring of the cover of a major policy report. Simply because it employed too much use of the colour green! . In consequence the IEA became the only organisation in history to issue a policy report with a cover picture of pink hued grass and trees.
This century the IEA has joined the modern world. The USA is now only a
minor contributor to its funds. The international board should tell Trump and his little henchman ,Wright, the self styled King of Fracking, to take a running jump back to their risible, Return toThe 1950 s , fake world.
They should tell Trump and his gang but will they? The next period is going to be quite fascinating.