#conocophillips

"On Monday, March 13th, 2023, the Biden Administration approved the controversial Willow Project, the largest fossil fuel project the United States has reckoned with in decades. An $8 billion initiative of ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s largest crude oil producer, the project will nearly double existing oil production in the state."

"Long story short, over 30 years, Willow will release 260 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. That’s not good, especially given a United Nations climate report saying global carbon emissions rose in 2022. Also, Alaska Natives are sharply divided on this project. The blog explores the long history of extractive capitalism in Alaska, and how that has essentially put impoverished Indigenous people at the end of the barrel of a gun when it comes to fossil fuel projects like Willow."

"The Willow Project is a proposed pipeline in Northern Alaska that has been proposed by ConocoPhillips, a company that has been surrounded by controversy for continued oil drilling, exploitation of nature, and posing risks to indigenous communities globally. This project was proposed during the Trump administration, but has yet to be approved by the Biden administration. Despite Biden promising to turn away from non-renewable energy sources such as oil, he is still defending this project.

If this pipeline were to be approved, 100,000 barrels of oil would be produced for the next 30 years. The first oil to be used from this pipeline would be as early as 2024. We do not have much time, but it's still enough to defend our earth and the Iñupiat that live there."

Please sign the petition to say NO to the Willow Project!!

https://www.change.org/.../joseph-r-biden-biden...

and/or call the White House and use your voice to be heard!!!

The number to the comment line (stay on until you speak with a representative) is 202-456-1111

(If you struggle like me and don't know what to say, here is a copy of what you can say to get your point across.)

"I want to say and express that the Willow Project would cause devastating damage to our environment. And I feel very strongly because it would really affect the indigenous and America's Arctic. It would push us to the point of no return and ensure an unlivable planet for future generations. The Willow Project, it directly contradicts what President Biden promised and committed to, to begin resolving the climate catastrophe. I feel that the entire human race deserves a smarter, sustainable energy plan. So, I very strongly urge the President to listen to the deep concerns about the Willow Project that have been voiced by local indigenous leaders, scientists, and even his own administration. And so please tell President Biden and the Department of the Interior to say no to project Willow immediately."

By Christopher Fry

and even if you don't care about animals and the future generations *cough* ignorant *cough* everybody should educate themselves because it happens now.

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

For more than four years, ConocoPhillips has been working with the federal government to expand oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve, a roughly 23-million-acre stretch of government-managed land on Alaska’s North Slope. If approved, the so-called Willow Project would allow for construction of up to 250 wells, two airstrips, as well as a network of gravel roads, pipelines, and a new central processing facility in a remote, ecologically sensitive corner of the Arctic.

Willow’s road to approval has been rocky. Last year a federal court ordered the Department of the Interior to redo the project’s legally-required environmental impact statement, or EIS, a new draft of which was released early last month. Now, Congressional Democrats and the Native Village of Nuiqsut, a town of just over 500 people that is closest to the development, are asking the Biden administration for more time to weigh in on the new document.

So far they’ve been met with silence. The Department of the Interior has not responded to formal requests to extend the public comment period on the draft EIS. Two letters obtained by Grist, one from the House Committee on Natural Resources and one from Nuiqsut, described the 45-day comment period — the minimum required by law — as inadequate for a project of this scope. The House committee also requested a response from the Interior Department by July 22 but still has not received an answer.

The Interior Department did not respond to Grist’s formal requests for comment, but an employee who was not authorized to speak on the record told Grist that the requests to extend the comment period are “on everybody’s radar, but no decision has been made.”