President Biden is planning to approve an $8 billion oil drilling project on federal land on Alaska’s North Slope next week, according to multiple reports.
His expected authorization of ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project, the largest proposed oil project in the country, would be a marked change from his previous insistence that the USThe Willow Project aims to drill for oil on three sites inside the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve, located 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The expanse of land where the project is planned holds an estimated 600 million barrels of oil that could be pumped out over 30 years – nearly double the amount of barrels the government has stockpiled in its Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The Biden administration estimates that oil generated by the Willow Project would release 9.2 million metric tons of carbon pollution to the atmosphere per year.
A map showing the size of the Willow Project compared to the entirety of Alaska’s Natural Petroleum PreserveThe project has the backing of Alaska’s bipartisan congressional delegation and from a majority of Alaska Natives who live on the North Slope.Biden, 80, who last year pushed through apackage of environmental projects, including subsidies for electric vehicles, has so far during his presidency largely stood in the way of oil-related projects.
An exploratory drilling camp is set up at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope in 2019.
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