After months of internal deliberations, the Biden administration officially greenlit the Willow Project amid fierce pressure from the Alaska congressional delegation and major pushback from environmental groups.
About two weeks before the Biden administration approved the Willow oil drilling project – slated to extract millions of barrels of oil from Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve – Interior Secretary Deb Haaland held a meeting with key environmental advocates and Indigenous groups that opposed the project. Those constituents prevailed on her to reject the massive ConocoPhillips drilling venture.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Republican Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola said they waged a multi-pronged pressure campaign during the meeting with Biden. “We tag-teamed it really well,” Sullivan said. “There was no issue we did not press on.” Sullivan brought a map showing the impacts of 45 executive orders Biden had already taken that Sullivan characterized as “locking up” Alaska’s economic development.
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