Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department’s approval of the contentious Willow oil project on Friday, saying that despite President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands, “We’re not going to turn the faucet off and say we’re not drilling anymore
in half by 2030. Environmental groups call Willow a"carbon bomb" and have mounted a social media #StopWillow campaign that has been seen hundreds of millions of times.
In response to questions from hundreds of assembled journalists, Haaland said the Willow decision was countered by approval of a host of clean-energy projects, including a recent plan to produce"solar power from the deserts of Arizona to communities all over the West.''In an online video released 10 hours after the March 13 decision was made public, Haaland said she and Biden, both Democrats, believe the climate crisis “is the most urgent issue of our lifetime.
“You know, legal, existing rights are a thing in this country. And so we have to honor those in some respects. What we did really try to do is make it smaller, right, to protect the stakeholders and do whatever we could to help the situation to be more amenable to the wildlife and the ecosystems in Alaska.''
“And so I thought the better gamble — and a hell of a tradeoff — to have the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea and so many other places off limits forever now,'' he said March 24 during a visit to Canada. “What I really want to do ... is conserve significant amounts of Alaskan sea and land forever.''
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