Interior Secretary Deb Haaland: “We’re not going to turn the faucet off and say we’re not drilling anymore.″ OOTT Oilandgas Alaska Willow
Haaland, who opposed Willow when she served in Congress, joked Friday that as Interior secretary, “often I don’t have personal feelings.″ Still, Haaland’s views seemed apparent. She did not sign the secretarial order approving the project, leaving that to her deputy, Tommy Beaudreau, and declined multiple opportunities to say she personally supported the decision.
On Friday, Haaland called Willow “a very long and complicated and difficult decision to make,″ and noted that ConocoPhillips has long held leases to drill for oil on the site, in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The final approval reflects a substantially smaller project than ConocoPhillips originally proposed and includes a pledge by the Houston-based oil company to relinquish nearly 70,000 acres of leased land that will no longer be developed.ut was given legal advice that the oil company could win in court. Instead, his team forced concessions that included conservation of millions of acres in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.
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