In his first public explanation for his approval of the controversial Willow oil project, President Joe Biden said he wanted to reject it but was advised by lawyers that owner ConocoPhillips would likely win in court if he did.
In his first public explanation for his approval of the controversial Willow oil project in Alaska, Democratic President Joe Biden said Friday that he wanted to reject the project but was advised by lawyers that owner ConocoPhillips would likely win in court if he did.to reduce the project’s impact that came with the approval.alongside Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after addressing the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.
Biden said ConocoPhillips had agreed to go with three drill sites. That’s down from an earlier proposalthat would have allowed as many as five drill sites. Biden also said he removed 3 million acres of the Beaufort Sea from oil and gas drilling just north of Willow, which closes off the federal waters of the Arctic Ocean, though that action was not dependent on his approval of Willow.
Alaska politicians and many other groups, including several Alaska Native organizations, supported the project. They argued that it would help create Alaskan jobs and that killing Willow would only shift global oil production to other countries with less stringent environmental rules.
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