Willow Project

Alaska groups plan to gather in front of the U.S. Capitol to make a case for a proposed $8 Billion oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve ...

Those resolutions, which passed both bodies unanimously, will be presented to the Alaska Congressional Delegation in a show of support. On Monday, the Alaska Senate passed a resolution in support of the Willow project. The BLM says it would allow three, with a fourth to be considered later.

When President Joe Biden first took office, climate change policies were his immediate focus, with an adamancy that fossil fuel use was quickly coming to an ...

Willow is a project that fits the American’s high standards and is good for the country. The environmental extremists can do all the virtue signaling they want, but the bottom line is that if they block a project that meets the highest environmental standards, they are no better than the countries that turn a blind eye to ecological disasters daily in the pursuit of black gold. It is also estimated to generate billions in new revenue for the federal government, the State of Alaska, and communities in and around NPR-A. The Artic pipeline system, which can carry up to 2 million barrels of oil a day, was an engineering marvel when it was built in the 1970s, but the amount of oil going through it has steadily declined over the past two decades. oil companies to increase investment in the exploration and production of domestic resources. Fast forward to President Biden’s recent 2023 State of the Union address, and a different song was sung.

The White House has said it could shrink the ConocoPhillips Willow project and block Arctic Ocean drilling. But environmental groups are not won over.

In recent weeks, several Alaska Native groups have also traveled to Washington for routine meetings that have often become about Willow and the state’s oil industry. From 2015 to 2021, the Alaskan economy performed “at or near the bottom” nationally in four key measures of economic health, according to a report released last year by the University of Alaska Center for Economic Development. That has led to an aggressive lobbying campaign from Murkowski and other Alaskan elected officials to persuade the White House to accept the three-pad option outlined in the review. “You can see by the expression and the body language that is not a factor in their decision-making. The company’s plan for a 30-year project includes drilling on top of permafrost and constructing a network of chilling tubes to keep it frozen even as the region warms. “The western Arctic is one of the world’s last truly intact landscapes with tens of millions of acres that are completely undeveloped and that have only known subsistence use,” Sen. But the project’s supporters include other Biden allies — trade unions, many Alaska Natives and [two key Alaskan politicians](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/03/alaska-lawmakers-up-pressure-biden-approve-massive-oil-project/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21) — who say the project will boost the economy in a region that needs it. “We believe this project fits with the Biden Administration’s priorities on environmental and social justice, facilitating the energy transition and enhancing our energy security — all while creating good union jobs and providing benefits to Alaska Native communities,” company spokesman Dennis Nuss said in a statement. On Monday and in February, White House officials outlined two possible options for prominent environmentalists, suggesting the administration may pair one of the options with the offshore drilling ban and other moves, the three individuals said. But according to individuals familiar with the process, White House officials have taken control of final deliberations, struggling to figure out whether a scaled-back version of the project can appease both environmentalists and Alaskan allies. That has pushed the administration to search for a compromise, hoping to curb backlash on a project that conservationists see as an irreversible catastrophe. They added that administration officials are seriously considering shrinking the Arctic project to just two approved drilling pads, a size so small that officials for ConocoPhillips — the company that has spent

WASHINGTON, DC – As the Biden administration prepares to issue its final decision on ConocoPhillips' Willow Project, a crucial energy initiative on Alaska's ...

By working cooperatively with Bureau of Land Management and ConocoPhillips, we have developed the Willow Project into something that will benefit our region while minimizing impacts to the land, animals, and our subsistence lifestyle. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) joined prominent Iñupiat leaders for an on-the-record media roundtable to discuss the Willow Project and what its reapproval will mean for the North Slope. Our native leaders, the majority of whom are subsistence hunters, strongly support this project and do not believe that it will significantly impact subsistence hunting. This project fulfills the promise that President Biden ran on and touted since entering office.” Its economic benefits to our communities are clear, as is Willow’s ability to coexist with our subsistence traditions. But don’t take our word for it: see below for examples of how Alaskans are coming together to urge the project’s reapproval.

President Biden says the only barrier to more U.S. oil production is recalcitrant drillers. Ok, Mr. President, then are you going to approve Alaska's Willow ...

It’s been signed off by every agency, including Fish & Wildlife and the Army Corps of Engineers. It’s the largest pending oil and gas project in the U.S., with expected production of 180,000 barrels of oil a day, and 600 million over 30 years. The Biden Bureau of Land Management (BLM) narrowed the scope from five drilling pads to three, and Willow recently passed another environmental review. The Willow plan has passed every environmental analysis, would employ union labor and yield a revenue gusher. But the green left opposes Willow as a climate “bomb,” no matter that career scientists in federal agencies disagree. President Biden says the only barrier to more U.S.