ConocoPhillips has agreed to delay gravel mining and road building work associated with its Willow oil project after conservation groups asked a federal judge for a preliminary decision to stop construction work this winter.
FILE - This Feb. 9, 2016, file photo shows an ice-covered ConocoPhillips sign at a drilling site in Nuiqsut, Alaska.
The Biden administration early this week approved the controversial, $8 billion project that would produce oil for three decades. A number of Alaska groups and lawmakers support the project to boost Alaska’s struggling economy, but conservation groups have called Willow a “carbon bomb” that would accelerate global warming.
The U.S. Department of Justice, representing the Interior Department and other agencies, filed paperwork asking Gleason for aADN Politics podcast: The battle over the Willow projectThe filings say ConocoPhillips began building an ice road just after the project was approved. The ice road would take about a week to build, and will lead to the mine where gravel will be extracted to build a 3-mile gravel road from an existing field.
The full Willow project is expected to take six years to build, creating about 2,000 construction jobs.
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