This 2019 aerial photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska's North Slope. The Biden administration issued a long-awaited study on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, that recommends allowing three oil drilling sites in the region of far northern Alaska. The move, while not final, has angered environmentalists who see it as a betrayal of U.S.
The Bureau of Land Management, which falls under the Interior Department, also said in the report that identifying a preferred alternative "does not constitute a commitment or decision" and notes it could select a different alternative in the final decision. The Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Alaska Native corporation, and the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope joined the North Slope Borough in praising the proposed alternative and calling on the administration to move ahead on the project. In a joint statement, they said advancing the project "is critical for domestic energy independence, job security for Alaskans and the right of Alaska Natives to choose their own path.
Erec Isaacson, the president of ConocoPhillips Alaska, said in a statement the company believes the project will "benefit local communities and enhance American energy security while producing oil in an environmentally and socially responsible manner." He said the review process "should be concluded without delay."
Jeremy Lieb, an attorney with the group, said Willow is currently the largest proposed oil project in the U.S. He said it is "drastically out of step with the Biden administration's goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy." President Joe Biden campaigned on pledges to end new drilling on public lands and has set an ambitious goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
Is what it is...get used to more oil and gas production and consumption.... don't like it?.... nobody cares
My god Biden lost it!
Nobody cares about climate weirdos
When will people learn that democrats are hypocrites and liars. Remember the fake Russian collusion, or the Biden laptop that never existed, or the weapon less Jan 6 insurrection where the gaurds unlocked the doors for the protesters and invited them in? When will people learn
Too bad 🤡 cancelled keystone.
I think this is good. I'd like to see the climate activists ice breaker their way there and block the road. While there, they can do a count of hungry Polar Bears. Maybe offer themselves up.
How about the pipeline?
Pretty sad thought he had better sense guess not
No to Keystone in a stroke of a pen, but yes to arctic destruction. Reminds me of the song, I want a hypocrite for Christmas, only a hypocrite will do…
Hmmm, ok for oil from Alaska but not Alberta. 🤔
Let them freeze then.
It sure looks like a bomb 🙄
Tanker ban 'em
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