Willow Project: what could the ‘carbon bomb’ mean for the environment?

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian West Coast reporter Maanvi Singh about the Biden administration’s approval of a controversial new oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope. She also hears from Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is part of a coalition that’s filing a lawsuit to challenge the decision.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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0:42.1	Yesterday the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change released a final warning for humanity.
0:49.0	According to their report, the world is planning far too many new fossil fuel projects to meet
0:56.2	our 1.5 degree goal and avoid catastrophe.
1:01.2	One such project was approved by the Biden administration just last week.
1:06.0	President Biden is facing swift backlash from environmentalists over his approval of a massive oil drilling project in Alaska.
1:13.0	Now it's a major reversal after he promised no more drilling on federal lands while on the campaign trail in 2020.
1:19.0	If it goes ahead, the Conoco Phillips Willow Project would be one of the US's largest so-called
1:25.6	carbon bombs taking place in one of the world's most climate sensitive regions.
1:30.9	Alaska is home to rapidly retreating glaciers where the rate of melting is among the fastest on the planet.
1:40.0	No surprise then that it's faced fierce opposition.
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