Willow project

The Biden administration has approved the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska, angering climate advocates and setting the stage for a court ...

“This was the right decision for Alaska and our nation,” Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips chairman and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “The new protections announced for the threatened Arctic are important, but they do not make up for Willow’s approval.” The White House on Monday made the entire US Arctic Ocean off limits to future oil and gas leasing. “After years of consistent, determined advocacy for this project, from people all across the state and from every walk of life, the Willow Project is finally moving forward,” said Democratic Rep. “Industrial development in this unspoiled landscape will not age well.” “I would like to thank the President and his administration for listening to the voices of Alaskans when it mattered most.” The administration felt it was constrained legally and had few options to cancel or significantly curtail the project – which was initially approved by the Trump administration. Reducing the drill-pads to two would have allowed the company to drill about 70% of the oil they were initially seeking. “We know President Biden understands the existential threat of climate, but he is approving a project that derails his own climate goals.” The Willow Project is a decadeslong oil drilling venture in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government. Environmental advocates are expected to challenge the project in court. “We finally did it, Willow is finally reapproved, and we can almost literally feel Alaska’s future brightening because of it,” Republican Sen.

Drilling for more oil in the Alaskan Arctic would be, in the President's own words, a “big disaster.”

“In giving the greenlight to drilling, President Biden is now risking the support of many young people who voted for him in large numbers in 2020,” the BBC noted. An immense new oil project—Willow is expected to include more than two hundred wells—is obviously at odds with the goal of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. [Barack Obama](https://www.newyorker.com/tag/barack-obama)’s all-of-the-above energy strategy?) And it’s the reason that, even as the country takes steps to reduce emissions, it never seems to really get anywhere. The decision to approve the Willow project is—to use the President’s words—“a big disaster.” This is not just because of the impact that the project will have, though certainly that is bad enough. In the form in which it was approved on Monday, the Willow project will produce roughly five hundred and seventy-five million barrels of oil in the course of the next thirty years. In an opinion piece published on CNN’s Web site last week, all the members of Alaska’s congressional delegation—two Republican senators and a Democratic representative—expressed their support for the project. Of course, for those who oppose the project, the politics play differently. [Inflation Reduction Act](https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-democrats-finally-deliver), which contained both billions of dollars’ worth of tax credits to speed the transition away from fossil fuels and a stipulation that millions of acres of federal land be auctioned off for oil and gas drilling to provide more fossil fuels. On Monday, the Biden Administration granted ConocoPhillips approval for an immense new drilling project—the Willow oil project—in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Biden, in response, pledged, “No more drilling on federal lands, period, period, period.” It was, he added, “a disaster” to drill for oil in the Arctic—“a big disaster, in my view.” As the Times pointed out, the Willow project “would be one of the few oil projects that Mr. By the Administration’s own estimates, burning all that oil will result in the emission of about ten million tons of carbon dioxide per year, or some three hundred million tons over the life of the project.

The limits on oil and gas drilling in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean come as a huge project may be approved.

The reserve is a 23-million acre area on Alaska's North Slope that was set aside a century ago for future oil production. "There are not many opportunities to do much else that's why you will see local support [for the proposal]. Alaskan politicians, trade unions and some indigenous communities have also urged for it to be approved due to its potential economic benefits.

While climate activists were outraged, the project, located in the federally designated National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, enjoys widespread political ...

“It’s a performative action to make the Willow project not look as bad,” said Elise Joshi, the acting executive director of Gen-Z for Change, an advocacy organization. Anticipating that reaction among environmental groups, the White House announced on Sunday that Biden will prevent or limit oil drilling in 16 million acres in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. the White House said in a statement. “We know President Biden understands the existential threat of climate, but he is approving a project that derails his own climate goals.” Dan Sullivan said conditions attached to the project should not reduce Willow’s ability to produce up to 180,000 barrels of crude a day. “The administration listened to Alaska voices.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday it is approving the major Willow oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, ...

Anticipating that reaction among environmental groups, the White House announced on Sunday that Biden will prevent or limit oil drilling within a 16-million acre area of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. About half the reserve is off limits to oil and gas leasing under an Obama-era rule reinstated by the Biden administration last year. Indigenous lawmakers in the state recently met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to urge support for Willow. Climate activists have been outraged that Biden appeared open to greenlighting the project, which they said put his climate legacy at risk. A fourth drill site proposed for the project would be denied. The administration of U.S.

US government decision to greenlight ConocoPhillips Alaska's $8bn Willow oil project received praise and condemnation.

The Willow project “is about producing oil for decades when the US needs to be on a steep reduction path”, said Michael Lazarus, a senior scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute. The withdrawal of the offshore area ensures important habitat for whales, seals, polar bears and other wildlife “will be protected in perpetuity from extractive development″, the White House said in a statement. These are the types of emissions that we cannot afford if we’re going to avoid the worst of climate change,” Grafe told Al Jazeera. Supporters have called the project balanced and say communities would benefit from taxes generated by Willow to invest in infrastructure and provide public services. Willow is currently the largest proposed oil project on US public land. ConocoPhillips Alaska proposed five drilling sites as part of the project.

The "carbon bomb" is opposed by environmentalists, but other factors also influenced the president.

This helped push down prices at the pump. Last year, in response to the Ukraine war, the White House authorised the release of millions of barrels from the US strategic petroleum reserve. So, in an effort to limit the impact of the Willow approval, the White House has Mr Biden came to COP27 in Egypt and spoke of the big picture of climate change, threatening the "very life of the planet" - but he's also attuned to US bread-and-butter issues, especially the price of gas. The White House will likely say that the role of the courts has also influenced the Willow decision. US President Joe Biden has approved a major oil and gas drilling project in Alaska, intended to create local investment and thousands of jobs.