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Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The state of Alaska filed to intervene Thursday and Friday in lawsuits that challenge the recent federal approval of the Willow Project, an oil development, estimated to produce more than 600 million barrels over 30 years and is described as the largest project in size and scale to be developed on the North Slope in more than 20 years.
Federal officials reduced ConocoPhillips drill sites at Willow from five to three approved 199 well sites, but environmentalists were still angered by the decision.
US Department of the Interior has approved a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). (Earlier post.) The Record of Decision (ROD) reduces the size of the project by denying two of the original five drill sites proposed by ConocoPhillips, which is seeking...