The Willow Project, has been a big thing on TikTok for the past days. With the hashtag, #stopwillowproject, it has gone viral.
People are telling others to sign petitions, and make it loud and clear, that they do not want the Willow Project to happen.
What is the Willow Project?
ConocoPhillips’ proposed Willow Project is a massive and decades long oil drilling venture on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government.
The area where the project is planned holds up to 600 million barrels of oil. That oil would take years to reach the market since the project has yet to be constructed.
Who supports the Willow Project?
The state’s lawmakers say the project will create jobs, boost domestic energy production and lessen the country’s reliance on foreign oil. All three lawmakers in Alaska’s bipartisan congressional delegation met with President Joe Biden and his senior advisers on March 3, urging the President and his Administration to approve the project.
Is this really true?
BBC news have posted an article about this, and the TikTok community making the willow project # viral. Yet no other, reliable sources, have commented on this issue. Nor has the news on the Tv, a announced a thing.