Trump Advocate Hamm Warns Against Clinton Victory

摘要

Continental Resources Inc. founder Harold Hamm, an unabashed supporter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Tuesday warned a Denver audience in a provocative speech that Democrat Hillary Clinton, if elected in November, would doom the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. Hamm, who was Mitt Romney's energy adviser in his failed presidential bid in 2012, was named to Trump's economic advisory panel earlier this month (see Shale Daily, Aug. 5). Trump last month surprisingly embraced local control over fracturing (fracking) in horizontal drilling during an exchange with a television reporter - even though his energy agenda calls for more U.S. production. The hot button issue, which could be on the ballot in Colorado in November, is roundly opposed by the oil and gas indus try (see Shale Daily, Aug. 23).