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Biden on Monday approved ConocoPhillips’ massive Willow Oil Project, drawing fire from environmentalists and activists and paving the way for the oil giant to produce more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.
By Kenny Stancil
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday greenlighted a massive oil drilling project on federal land in Alaska, eliciting outrage from climate advocates who say the administration’s accompanying restrictions on oil and gas leasing in the region cannot make up for the destruction set to be unleashed by the approved Willow project.
Progressives sought for months to dissuade Biden from approving ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion Willow project, noting that it could enable the production of more than 600 million barrels of crude over 30 years.
If all of that oil is burned, roughly 280 million metric tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions will be spewed into the atmosphere at a time when U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warns that the planet is reaching a “point of no return.”
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