Fate of $8 Billion Alaska Oil Project Comes Down to the Next 30 Days
- Activists want project scaled back so it’s no longer viable
- ConocoPhillips said reductions would jeopardize its venture
Oil pipelines near Nuiqsut, Alaska, a village about 36 miles from the proposed ConocoPhillips development.
Photographer: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post/Getty Images
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It’s been called a “carbon bomb” and a caribou killer. Now, climate activists have one final, brief window of opportunity to quash ConocoPhillips’s proposed $8 billion oil development in Alaska.
In an unexpected twist, some opponents are quietly encouraging President Joe Biden’s administration to actually approve the project, but in such a scaled-back way that it no longer makes economic sense. They’re moving fast, before the Interior Department is set to issue its final ruling in about a month.