AP sources: Biden OKs huge Willow oil project in Alaska

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-oil-biden-willow-drilling-climate-24f135580259b9f9b245383dba921fe7

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is approving the major Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The decision revealed Monday, one of President Joe Biden’s most consequential climate decisions, is likely to draw condemnation from environmentalists who say it flies in the face of the Democratic president’s climate pledges.

Climate activists have been outraged that Biden appeared open to greenlighting the project, which they said put Biden’s climate legacy at risk. Allowing oil company ConocoPhillips to move forward with the drilling plan also would break Biden’s campaign promise to stop new oil drilling on public lands, they say.

ConocoPhillips Alaska’s Willow project could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day, create up to 2,500 jobs during construction and 300 long-term jobs, and generate billions of dollars in royalties and tax revenues for the federal, state and local governments, the company says.

The project, located in the federally designated National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, enjoys widespread political support in the state. Alaska Native state lawmakers recently met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to urge support for Willow.

[House of Roberts]

1. Shoulda held out on this

unless the Rs raise the debt ceiling, Never give the reich anything without receiving a reciprocal concession.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

2. Well, we're gonna need to bulk up our oil reserves if we're going to fight a war over Taiwan

Nothing happens in a vacuum , strategically speaking

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. The string of logic that leads to those conclusions...beyond my untwisting abilities.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

7. Simple, Navy battlegroups need lots of oil to get to Asia, only subs and carriers use nuclear power

[walkingman]

3. Absolutely the wrong thing to do. All the progress made in combating

Climate Change is now out the window. Dumb move. We already have millions of unfilled jobs and the justification is jobs? Really?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. Corporate media sure have been harping on this for days.

Putting the pressure on for their Oily Ad money buddies.

Approval doesn’t mean any actual drilling, lots of time for more environmental studies and delay…and when oil prices fall…never going to happen…and what can be approved…can be unapproved.

[BlackSkimmer]

6. Somewhere I hear a faint cry... in a still familiar voice.

Drill, baby, drill.

You betcha.