What was President Biden thinking? On Monday he doomed the climate and everything currently alive on earth to an earlier extinction and a faster sea level rise, than the ones we already knew were coming. He just guaranteed the US won’t meet its climate targets. Was he ever serious about the climate crisis? Biden didn’t have to approve this oil drilling development in Alaska. He could have said no. But he chose to approve it, and now we have to find another presidential candidate for 2024. I won’t promote or support in any way any candidate in future elections that is not 100{4c54daa6e7d390e0c804f6c94b51bf37f68eac95daa3fa7b95874e6915e44c3a} serious about climate change. We are out of time. And Biden just blew it big time and as a result, he should not run for President in 2024. Democrats, you need to find another candidate. From the Guardian:
The Biden administration has approved a controversial $8bn (£6bn) drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, which has drawn fierce opposition from environmentalists and some Alaska Native communities, who say it will speed up the climate breakdown and undermine food security.
The ConocoPhillips Willow project will be one of the largest of its kind on US soil, involving drilling for oil and gas at three sites for multiple decades on the 23m-acre National Petroleum Reserve which is owned by the federal government and is the largest tract of undisturbed public land in the US.
It will produce an estimated 576m barrels of oil over 30 years, with a peak of 180,000 barrels of crude a day. This extraction, which ConocoPhillips has said may, ironically, involve refreezing the rapidly thawing Arctic permafrost to stabilize drilling equipment, would create one of the largest “carbon bombs” on US soil, potentially producing more than twice as manyemissions than all renewable energy projects on public lands by 2030 would cut combined.
ConocoPhillips has been planning this carbon bomb for a long time:
Discovering a new Alaskan gusher
ConocoPhillips restarted its Alaskan oil exploration program in 2016, drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve, where the company and its partner at the time, Anadarko Petroleum (APC), had leased about 1.2 million acres of land. In early 2017, the two companies announced their first discovery, called Willow, which they estimated contained more than 300 million barrels of recoverable oil. The companies planned to drill more test wells to appraise the find. Prior to drilling, they thought that Willow could eventually produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day as early as 2023 following a multibillion-dollar investment to develop the field.
Fast-forward to 2018, and Anadarko Petroleum is no longer in the equation after selling its 22{4c54daa6e7d390e0c804f6c94b51bf37f68eac95daa3fa7b95874e6915e44c3a} stake in this partnership to ConocoPhillips for $400 million. The sale included the Western North Slope field, which produced 63,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day last year (BOE/D); the Alpine pipeline; and the company’s interest in all 1.2 million acres of exploration and development land, which held the Willow discovery. That find has grown in the last year as a result of new exploration and appraisal drilling over the winter that further confirmed the potential of Willow and uncovered new potential sources of oil.
Source: Motley Fool
As a result of this Oil drilling approval, (and a few other things like voting and abortion rights disappearing) I’m very, very disappointed in President Biden and will no longer support him for president – unless he explains how Joe Manchin somehow forced him to do this, which is not much of a stretch to imagine. Even so, I think this may illustrate how Biden’s older age or his antiquated way of doing things is not adequate for the 21st Century and the dire consequences we face from the threat of climate change. Half measures are not going to solve anything. We either go big or go extinct.
We need to stop accepting any more new oil and gas drilling and stop pretending that oil and gas are necessary. We need to get off the heroin addiction of oil and get serious about climate change or we won’t have a future. Someone needs to have a talk with Joe Biden about this.
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