The controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska has been approved – what are the expected impacts on humans, climate and wildlife?
at the non-profit Trustees for Alaska. “Interior’s decision to give ConocoPhillips permits for an oil and gas project demonstrates once again how agencies and corporate interests disregard the cost of industrialisation to land, water, animals and people.”
“The true cost of the Willow project is to the land and to animals and people forced to breathe polluted air and drink polluted water,” wrote the organisation Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic. For decades, the National Audubon Society has recognised the Willow project area as critical for millions of migratory birds, including threatened spectacled eiders and other vulnerable birds.
While running for president, Joe Biden vowed to prohibit all “new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters” to meet climate goals. In recent weeks, young activists have highlighted these campaign promises and the commitments of the Paris Agreement in a #StopWillow online campaign.the US would offer protections to the Arctic Ocean and other areas of the reserve.
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