The Department of the Interior is scheduled to release its final decision on the project as soon as March 6, and state legislators are only the latest group trying to sway the federal government in the last days before the decision.
Energy & Mining
Alaska House votes unanimously to support Willow oil project
The House’s 36-0 vote on a resolution supporting the Willow project is largely ceremonial but could help sway the Biden administration as the Department of Interior prepares a final record of decision on the project.
Biden administration can’t have it both ways by shrinking Willow project, Murkowski says
ConocoPhillips originally proposed five drill sites west of the community of Nuiqsut.
Sen. Sullivan stresses Willow drilling project, military spending in annual address to Legislature
Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola will also make a speech to the Alaska Legislature this month, followed by Murkowski.
Not everyone’s on board with a Fairbanks utility’s deal to source North Slope natural gas
It’s a historic deal — the first time North Slope gas will be commercialized for use elsewhere in the state.
Gov. Dunleavy says Alaska doesn’t flare its natural gas. It does.
Targeted by environmental groups, gas flares in Alaska are regulated more by economics than concerns about greenhouse gases.