Tell the BLM to Reject the "Willow Project" Drilling Operation!
In the heart of Alaska's spectacular North Slope tundra lies an area the size of Maine, dotted with countless lakes and ponds, meandering streams, and coastal lagoons; and teeming with caribou, grizzly bears, wolverines, polar bears, fish, and millions of migratory birds from six continents.
The land—officially known by the Bureau of Land Management as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska—is also the ancient home of the Inupiat people, who have lived there for thousands of years. The Inupiat depend on the region's abundant food resources like caribou to sustain their lives and culture.
Now ConocoPhillips wants to place a massive new oil drilling operation—dubbed the "Willow Project"—which will have a disastrous impact on the region's ecosystem.
Approved in the closing days of the Trump administration but halted by a federal judge pending an environmental review, it would include five drilling sites with up to 50 wells per site, processing and support facilities, more than 1,000 miles of ice roads, an airstrip, permanent gravel roads, and more than 300 miles of pipelines.
And as climate change has made the impacts and dangers of fossil fuels more stark, the Willow Project would generate more than 250 million metric tons of CO2 emissions over the 30-year life of the field. To put that in perspective, in the course of an average year of production, this one oil field in Alaska would rank above nearly half the nations on Earth in terms of yearly CO2 emissions!
Take Action!
Public commenting on the Willow Project closes on March 9!
Tell the BLM to respect the homeland of the Inupiat and the ecosystem that sustains them, and keep fossil fuels in the ground where they belong!
