THE WILLOW PROJECT

The United States formally approved a vast oil drilling project in Alaska, also known as the Willow

What is the Willow Project?

  • Willow Project is a massive and decades long oil drilling venture on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government of US.
  • The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil.
  • That oil would take years to reach the market since the project has yet to be constructed.

Climate threats:

  • The project would generate enough oil to release 9.2 million metric tons of planet-warming carbon pollution a year.
  • The project could destroy habitat for native species and alter the migration patterns of animals including caribou.

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB

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