The US government has approved an Alaskan drilling venture despite pressure from environmentalists to kill the project
Three days after denying that a decision had been made, President Joe Biden’s administration has approved an $8 billion oil development in the Alaskan Arctic, clearing the way for a drilling project decried by climate activists as an “environmental injustice.”
The ruling was announced on Monday by the US Department of the Interior (DOI), approving a project that developer ConocoPhillips estimates will produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak. The company has called its Willow development “the next great Alaska hub,” suggesting that it could lead to the tapping of other oil deposits in the area as additional wells could tie into the initial project’s processing and pipeline infrastructure.
Willow is located in the pristine National Petroleum Reserve, a 23-million-acre tract on Alaska’s North Slope that has been…
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