Commentary: The administration’s rush to appease the oil industry has once again demonstrated that no matter which party is in power, it must kowtow to corporate interests who green-wash their way to record profits at the expense of our planet’s health.
Today, I recall a promise made during the 2020 presidential campaign by Joe Biden that there would be, “No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period.”
The environmental footprint ConocoPhillips will place in the fragile tundra is immense. In addition to the oil wells, there will be new roads built, as well as pipelines, an airport and a gravel pit. Not to mention the disruption to the many species of birds and animals in the region.
criticized environmental groups that he claimed were acting as ‘eco-colonialists,’ and working to kill the Willow project. The letter stated that the federal government “does not consider relevant the extensive knowledge and expertise we have gained over millennia, living in a way that is so deeply connected to our environment.” And that the government “does not look at the harm this project would cause from the perspective of how to let us be us — how to ensure that we can maintain our culture, traditions, and our ability to keep going out on the land and the waters.
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