Biden Admin Approves ConocoPhillips 30-Year
Willow Oil Drilling Project in Alaska
Posted By: Harlowe, 3/13/2023 4:37:18 PM
President Joe Biden’s administration approved ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion drilling project in Alaska. From the Anchorage Daily News: ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion Willow prospect in the Indiana-size reserve is expected to be one of the largest oil fields developed in Alaska in decades. It would produce oil for three decades, including 180,000 barrels of oil daily at its peak. (Snip) The deal also forced ConocoPhillips to turn over 68,000 acres. (Snip) Kristen Miller, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said her organization will continue to resist the project.
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President Joe Biden’s administration approved ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion drilling project in Alaska. From the Anchorage Daily News: ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion Willow prospect in the Indiana-size reserve is expected to be one of the largest oil fields developed in Alaska in decades. It would produce oil for three decades, including 180,000 barrels of oil daily at its peak. (Snip) The deal also forced ConocoPhillips to turn over 68,000 acres. (Snip) Kristen Miller, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said her organization will continue to resist the project.
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Thank you Your Majesty for giving spoilt
manbaby Prince Harry and his wife a kick
up the backside 20 replies
manbaby Prince Harry and his wife a kick
up the backside 20 replies
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Girls Basketball Team That Refused to
Play Against a Transgender Athlete Banned
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Play Against a Transgender Athlete Banned
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Mexican president says Mexico safer than US
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed Mexico is safer than the United States.
Obrador made the comments amid increased scrutiny over violence in his country. The scrutiny comes after the violent kidnapping of four American tourists — two of whom were murdered.
“Mexico is safer than the United States. There is no issue with traveling safely through Mexico. That’s something the U.S. citizens also know, just like our fellow Mexicans that live in the U.S.,” the president said during a daily morning press briefing, CNN reported.
He pointed to the large number of American tourists who routinely visit the country as proof
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Emissions from this new project equate to less than 1 percent of the total 2019 annual emissions.