Sally Strange<p>Remember when your climate president approved the ConocoPhillips Willow drilling project in Alaska? Drilling has begun in places, but some activists managed to bring the decision back into court.</p><p>"The government’s attorney, Amy Collier, said experts at the agencies did consider that an increase in greenhouse gas emissions would cause the Arctic to lose sea ice, which the region’s polar bears depend on. But, she said, the link wasn’t direct. They didn’t have evidence that the specific emissions resulting from the Willow project would shrink sea ice in this part of the Arctic, hurting this particular population of polar bears."</p><p>That is some insulting sophistry. <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BullShit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BullShit</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/KeepItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeepItInTheGround</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://alaskapublic.org/2024/02/05/willow-opponents-try-again-this-time-in-a-u-s-appeals-court-to-block-conocophillips-oil-development-in-alaska/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alaskapublic.org/2024/02/05/wi</span><span class="invisible">llow-opponents-try-again-this-time-in-a-u-s-appeals-court-to-block-conocophillips-oil-development-in-alaska/</span></a></p>
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LM Little<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>breadandcircuses</span></a></span> This is the behaviour of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corporate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCriminals</span></a> and State <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Criminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Criminals</span></a> . <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>One reason I posted about the Gaza hospital explosion and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FogofWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FogofWar</span></a> is because there's a new campaign starting that is intended to harm Democrats chances to regain control over the U.S. energy and climate policy related to the LNG plants which is similar to the disinformation that has been spread on the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> </p><p>You cannot start the transition of an economy like in the U.S. away from fossil fuels without compromising with the fossil fuel industry some during the initial stages.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@climatebrad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>climatebrad</span></a></span> <br>Biden's administration was able to reduce Trump's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> by 40% while at the same time putting millions of acres of arctic wild lands off limits to development.</p><p>Anyone promoting false narratives that Biden approved Trump's Willow Project is probably secretly being paid by the fossil fuel industry to help block <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> or else they are just hopelessly ignorant of U.S. administrative law.</p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>"While the plans are exceedingly modest for now, the Climate Corps could be a means for Biden to make his environmental agenda resonate with younger voters still smarting from the administration’s approval of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a>. </p><p>With <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homeownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homeownership</span></a> and major asset purchases still solidly out of reach for many younger voters, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanClimateCorps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanClimateCorps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> might offer tangible benefits to those left out of the IRA."</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/175674/civilian-climate-corps-tiny-step-forward-young-activists" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/175674</span><span class="invisible">/civilian-climate-corps-tiny-step-forward-young-activists</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@beastieboyofthenet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>beastieboyofthenet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HeatherTX" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>HeatherTX</span></a></span> <br>Your lies don't change the fact that the Biden administration reduced the impact from Trump's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> by 40% and used that as a means to permanently protect over 13 million acres in the federal National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from drilling. In all, the administration has protected up to 16 million acres from future fossil fuel leasing.</p><p>Don't let the lies from the far-left grifters fool you into helping put the GOP back in charge of the U.S.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@jacobrogers256" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jacobrogers256</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>uspolitics</span></a></span> <br>You fell for the disinformation about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> from the grifters on the left so I understand why you are unable to appreciate how important getting <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> is. So sad, but dividing their opposition is just what the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFools</span></a> want.</p><p>I think that you should choose a side, but that's up to you.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tofugolem</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@davidho" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidho</span></a></span> <br>In the U.S., the annual carbon footprint of pet animal products is about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (or annual emissions of 14.2 million gasoline-powered cars). For perspective, as the New York Times reported, the annual emissions from the Alaska’s <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> would equal to about 2 million gasoline-powered cars if it is actually developed. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2023/04/09/dogs-are-humans-best-friends-could-we-reduce-their-carbon-footprint/?sh=600823f724f2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak</span><span class="invisible">/2023/04/09/dogs-are-humans-best-friends-could-we-reduce-their-carbon-footprint/?sh=600823f724f2</span></a></p>
CelloMom On Cars<p>Three reasons why <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> had to approve the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a>:</p><p>"One reason ... involves legality: ConocoPhillips holds the leases and has a legal right to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drill</span></a>. Canceling its leases would bring a court case that, if lost, would set a precedent, cost the government millions of dollars in fees and do nothing to stop oil drilling.</p><p>Instead, the government made a deal with ConocoPhillips that shrank the total surface area to be developed at Willow by 60%."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arctic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/willow-project-arctic-oil-drilling/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/</span><span class="invisible">willow-project-arctic-oil-drilling/</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>If you are upset that Biden reduced Trump's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> you've fallen for a disinformation campaign aiming to weaken opposition to the fossil fuel industry. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/22/willow-oil-alaska-conocophillips-harvard/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/climate-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/2023/04/22/willow-oil-alaska-conocophillips-harvard/</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@Leisureguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Leisureguy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <br>Yes, Biden was able to reduce Trump's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> by over forty percent and permanently protect more arctic land than any other POTUS before so I can appreciate why <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFools</span></a> upset with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> would criticize him for that.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>I've provided free access because what I find that I need to explain over and over again is that our administrative law protects us from (somewhat less than I'd hoped) despots like Trump, but it also means that we can't wave a magic wand to get what we want either, for example <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a>. </p><p>The durability of the Biden blueprint could also depend on Democrats retaining control of the White House in 2024 and defending the rules against expected court challenges. <a href="https://wapo.st/41tCAGj" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/41tCAGj</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://press.coop/@MotherJones" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MotherJones</span></a></span> <br>Biden protected more U.S. lands from oil and gas drilling than all other POTUS combined. I used to support y'all, but these constant lies about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> that are helping to drive down voter turnout have made me reconsider doing it again.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snoro" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Snoro</span></a></span> <br>Decisions like this are what uneducated people like <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.nu/@gretathunberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gretathunberg</span></a></span> don't understand about administrative law and U.S. legal code when they publish an attack piece trying to get their followers to stop voting for Democrats over something like the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>On March 12, the Biden administration banned all future oil and gas exploration in the Arctic Ocean and blocked leases on more than half of the National Petroleum Reserve, a massive step in reducing potential future carbon emissions from the world’s second-highest emitting country.</p><p>Regrettably though, the grifters that make their money spreading <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateDoom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDoom</span></a> have once again been spreading mis/disnfo on the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3925859-how-climate-activists-badly-missed-the-mark-on-willow-drilling-project/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/opinion/energy-env</span><span class="invisible">ironment/3925859-how-climate-activists-badly-missed-the-mark-on-willow-drilling-project/</span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>Enormous. Gargantuan. Huge. Massive. Vast. These are just some of the adjectives <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Doomer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doomer</span></a> grifters have summoned to describe the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> in their efforts to convince people to stop voting for Democrats because <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BothSidesAreBad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BothSidesAreBad</span></a> </p><p>I've gifted this WaPo article to you from my subscription in case you're interested in why yet once again Biden is being attacked by independents, Republicans, and the media.<br><a href="https://wapo.st/3TWxTCl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/3TWxTCl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://press.coop/@CNN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CNN</span></a></span> <br>It is false to say that the Biden administration "allowed" the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> to go forward. They followed the law and got concessions from ConocoPhillips while choosing not to waste their precious time and resources to fight a losing battle.</p><p>As to the lease sale today, his administration was forced to hold the sale after Joe Manchin added it to the Inflation Reduction Act,</p><p>Of the 73 million acres, companies signaled interest in bidding on 1.6 million acres!</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a></p><p>ConocoPhillips has held leases to develop oil for the region since the late 1990s and discovered Willow with two exploratory wells drilled in 2016. After roughly five years of permitting and legal fights, the Biden administration was forced by the courts to allow the project to go forward.</p><p>It will have only three drilling sites though since Biden successfully shrunk the project down from the five pads ConocoPhillips had originally proposed.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@NonnaWien" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NonnaWien</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@stfndrlnxr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stfndrlnxr</span></a></span> <br>That's mis/disinformation that you're spreading. The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> was a Trump administration initiative.</p>
Kevin Leecaster<p>Gifted this article from my subscription if you'd like to read something from an organization that's not fundraising off of trying to make you hate Democrats (although I'm not sure WaPo is innocent of that tbh).</p><p>ConocoPhillips has held leases to develop oil for the region since the late 1990s and discovered Willow with two exploratory wells drilled in 2016. After roughly five years of permitting and legal fights, the Biden administration approved a smaller <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WillowProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WillowProject</span></a> <a href="https://wapo.st/42ibL9v" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/42ibL9v</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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