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      1. Biden administration reportedly on the verge of approving Willow Master Plan with #ConocoPhillips to drill for #oil on the #NorthSlope of Alaska, despite climate crisis, fragile landscape, and Indigenous objections. finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-signal-support-alaska-oil-032026621.html
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      "$8 billion project the Interior Department says could produce some 180,000 barrels of oil per day and inject new crude into the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System." Minor so-called mitigation moves would pare output from 629 to 614 million barrels.
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    “There’s no reason we should be making any multibillion-dollar investment in new oil and gas production in this fragile place in the world — or anywhere,” said Abigail Dillen, president of the environmental group @Earthjustice.
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      ConocoPhillips sees Willow as the gateway to larger development of the National Petroleum Reserve, extracting 3 billion barrels of oilba vast natural area that despite its name has been preserved from development until now. americanprogress.org/article/4-reasons-the-willow-oil-project-is-unfit-for-approval/
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        Indigenous politics in Alaska around oil are always complex, given that self-rule is routed through Native Corporations that must find revenue. But an Alaska Native alliance opposing the project includes the Mayor of the closest Native town to Willow. silainuat.org/westernarctic
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          We are at a global limit. Climate stability requires no new oil & gas projects, per the International Energy Agency, an establishment group set up by wealthy countries to mange the 1970s energy crisis. @HansleyCaroline/1534601176968208384?t=fRf77JGObXmdA8FwJjX-7w&s=19