Biden Says Yes to the Willow Oil Project

The Administration approves a long-delayed drilling plan in Alaska.

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Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles, President Biden on Monday approved the Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision should have been easy after it passed every review known to the federal government. The project is projected to yield as much as 180,000 barrels of oil a day and will provide much-needed domestic oil production.

The White House leaked the decision late Friday, and the climate lobby erupted in anger and tried to change it. Earthjustice said it “greenlights a carbon bomb,” Al Gore piped up, and the climate left talked ominously about a presidential primary challenge. To calm the hysterics, the Administration leaked over the weekend that it will also put much of the rest of Alaska off limits to any drilling, creating a “firewall” against future production.

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