Social media posts opposing the Willow project are racking up millions of views, days before an expected decision from the Biden administration on the proposed oil development on Alaska’s North Slope.
Haraus said he’s worried about the impact Willow could have on subsistence food sources and public health for the people living near the project.
Elise Joshi, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, has been making anti-Willow videos on TikTok to her 122,000 followers since the Biden administration released its final environmental review last month. Joshi said that the Willow project “It was just building momentum since that report came out, and over the last week, people have been educated,” Joshi said. “There’s a juxtaposition happening right now in young people’s minds where the person that they voted for who pledged to end new oil drilling on federal land is potentially going to approve a new oil project.”
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