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3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved – it's the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska's North Slope

  • Written by Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved – it's the latest battle in a long fight over Alaska's North SlopeSeveral oil projects are active in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management, CC BY-SA

For more than six decades, Alaska’s North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project...

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