The Alaska Legislature unanimously passed a resolution in support of the Willow oil development. The Biden administration is expected to release a record of decision as early as next week.
the project earlier this month, it highlighted environmental and subsistence concerns about the oil development raised by many of those groups. The administration is expected to release a record of decision as early as next week.
Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola said Monday that she was “very, very pleased” with the resolution’s passage. Sen. Donny Olson, a Golovin Democrat, said the Iñupiaq people have depended on and protected their subsistence resources on Alaska’s lands and waters for thousands of years. The Bureau of Land Management advanced Willow earlier this month in a final environmental impact statement with a proposal for a three-pad preferred alternative. ConocoPhillips has indicated that if the project is cut down to two pads or fewer, Willow would no longer be economically viable.
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