Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry State seeks to intervene in suit defending BLM Willow decision Kay Cashman Petroleum News On April 15, the State of Alaska asked the U.S. District Court in Anchorage for permission to participate in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Bureau of Land Managements approval of the Willow Project, which is west of the central North Slope. Willow is in the northeastern portion of the National Petrol.... [additional news subjects in this story] Economic impact $4.8 - $12.9B