{"id":559167,"date":"2023-03-01T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T04:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=559167"},"modified":"2023-03-01T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T05:55:41","slug":"us-president-biden-faces-dilemma-in-fight-over-large-alaska-oil-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-president-biden-faces-dilemma-in-fight-over-large-alaska-oil-project\/","title":{"rendered":"US President Biden faces dilemma in fight over large Alaska oil project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska&#8217;s petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say is counter to President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate goals.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on ConocoPhillips Alaska&#8217;s Willow project, in a federal oil reserve roughly the size of Indiana, could come by early March.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is the Willow project?<\/p>\n<p>A: The project could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the company about 1.5 per cent of total US oil production. But in Alaska, Willow represents the biggest oil field in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration is weighing approval of a major oil project on Alaska&#8217;s petroleum-rich North Slope that supporters say represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities in the region but environmentalists say is counter to President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate goals. A decision on ConocoPhillips Alaska&#8217;s Willow project, in a federal oil reserve roughly the size of Indiana, could come by early March. Q: What is the Willow project? A: The project could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the company about 1.5 per cent of total US oil production. But in Alaska, Willow represents the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}