The Bureau of Land Management has released a new draft environmental impact statement for the Willow project on the North Slope. Environmental groups successfully sued to overturn a prior impact statement that would have allowed the project to advance.
This map from the Bureau of Land Management shows the site of the Willow development on the North Slope of Alaska. Willow’s drill sites are marked by squares. for the Willow project, a major oil development planned for federal land on Alaska’s North Slope.
Willow, which at peak production is expected to deliver as much as 180,000 barrels of oil per day to the trans-Alaska Pipeline System, is opposed by environmental groups who successfully sued to overturn a prior impact statement that would have allowed the project to advance.Members of the public have until 10 p.m. Aug. 29 tofor one of five options for the project’s future.
On Friday, the BLM’s initial draft stated that it supports “Option E,” which reduces the amount of surface infrastructure to something less than preferred by ConocoPhillips. Early Saturday morning, the BLM said that language had been a mistake and it does not have a preferred option.
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