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Trump Fucked Up wrote in
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> On Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 12:42:30 PM UTC-5, bigdog wrote:
>
> Democrats are assholes.
>
The approval process for a massive Alaska oil drilling project sparked
intense disagreements within the Biden administration that culminated with
a tactful media leak late last week, according to two senators who
advocated for the project.
President Joe Biden and senior White House advisers ultimately made the
call to green-light the Willow Project, a drilling project that its
developer, ConocoPhillips, forecasted to produce up to 614 million barrels
of crude oil over its 30-year lifespan, but faced stiff opposition from
officials elsewhere in the administration, Alaska Republican Sens. Lisa
Murkowski and Dan Sullivan told reporters during a call Monday.
"Were there people within the administration, within the Department of
Interior, that were working to actively kill this? Absolutely,
positively," Murkowski said. "I don't think you have to name names. Let's
just put out there that this administration has made no secret of the fact
that they want to move beyond oil."
"There are absolutely people in the administration today who are not
viewing this as good news," she continued. "I think they tried to actively
work against us, and they worked against us right up until the end."
BIDEN APPROVES MASSIVE OIL DRILLING PROJECT CLIMATE ACTIVISTS DERIDED AS
'CARBON BOMB'
Murkowski, Sullivan and Alaska Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola had repeatedly
urged the administration over the course of the last year to approve the
project, noting that it had near unanimous support throughout Alaska and
arguing that it would provide a much-needed boost to the state's economy
while bolstering U.S. energy security.
The Department of Interior (DOI) published its decision Monday morning,
approving three of five proposed drilling sites in a major victory for its
proponents and a cause for consternation among environmentalists who said
the project was a "carbon bomb." Interior Secretary Deb Haaland notably
didn't provide a statement in the public announcement.
DARK MONEY ECO GROUP APPEARS TO BE ASTROTURFING OPPOSITION TO MAJOR OIL
PROJECT
"I think we realized some time ago that this was going to be a decision
that was ultimately made at the White House level, not only by senior
leaders but actually with the president's direct involvement himself,"
Murkowski told reporters. "The president had clearly been apprised of
Willow and what Willow was."
"This was not something that I think was ultimately going to reside with
the secretary of Interior."
Sullivan added that he knew "for a fact" the decision to approve Willow
was leaked late last week in a last-ditch effort to change Biden's mind by
those in the administration opposed to the project. Bloomberg first
reported Friday evening that senior administration officials had signed
off on the project.
The report was quickly followed by a statement from White House press
secretary Karine Jean-Pierre that a decision had not been made and that
"anyone who says there has been a final decision is wrong."
"We know, for example, for a fact that the leak to the Bloomberg reporters
on Friday was an attempt by certain anti-Willow forces in the Biden
administration to kill the project," Sullivan said Monday. "That was
disappointing to see that. We were very aware of that from the beginning."
"Secretary Haaland has not been actively engaged, in my view, at all on
this," he continued. "And that may have been from the fact that she, as a
congresswoman, was vocally against Willow. So, it probably wouldn't have
been objective to have her be the decision maker. It was clearly at the
presidential level."
The DOI declined to comment. The White House didn't immediately respond to
a request for comment.
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