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A part of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System runs past Alaska Range mountains near Delta Junction Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP

The Willow Project was officially approved by the Biden administration. This has led the internet to turn into total chaos with over 3 million people signing petitions, over 1 million people sending letters to the White House and the creation of the #StopWillow hashtag on social media, in protest of the project that will end up destroying our world.

What is the Willow Project?

For the people who don’t know, the Willow project is a ConocoPhillips oil drilling project located on the North Slope of Alaska. The oil was discovered in 2016 and in 2020 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved ConocoPhillips’ suggestion of developing the project. On March 13th 2023 the Biden administration ended up approving the project. The approval ended up in a lawsuit filed by environmentalist organisation Earthjustice the very next day on behalf of many other groups to hopefully stop the project.

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