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Alaska Soles • Entered by Loren Karro on August 30, 2022

Comments on Willow project

August 1, 2022 – August 29, 2022

Key Issue: Oil, Gas, or Mineral Development
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)

Measurable Outcomes

Outcome 1: Advocacy actions (2 comments)

Short Description of Activity

Filed detailed comments agains the proposed Willow Development Project in the NPRA-ALASKA.

Reflection/Evaluation

FIRST,put NPRA-Alaska on the landscape list!
As always we learned a lot. These comments were about the terrible DSEIS that BLM filed after a lawsuit issued an opinion that many parts of their original EIS were arbitrary and capricious, at best. However this SEIS was very narrowly construed. One BLM stand that the court objected to as that they couldn’t consider a no action alternative because the fact that ConocoPhillips possessed the lease gave them the right to drill for oil in the maximum amount that was financially feasible. In the supplemental filing BLM said of their NO Action alternative that it at least stood as a baseline, they still did not consider it seriously. They also did not consider an alternative that had all development totally outside of the Teshukpuk Lake SA (and/or the Colville river SA) because they said that would make the project not economically beneficial. It is not BLM;s job to make the project profitable for CP!!! We fear that this project was a bone thrown to Manchin et al to get the Inflation Reduction Act passed. If so it was a bad bone; this is a major major development that will mean more oil and gas development for at least the next 30 years, and is totally out of line with the Administration’s goals for cite change control.

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1. Loren’s Willow Comments
2. Kathy’s Willow Comments