CNN’s Bill Weir on Alaska Willow Oil Project: ‘Climate-Minded and Environmental Voters’ Are Devastated

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WEIR: “So the Biden administration, they really had no choice. These leases are contracts, ConocoPhillips can sue them for the lost revenue in the tunes of multibillions of dollars, so what they tried to do is protect the area around it. They announced at the same time they'd pretty much wall off the rest of the Arctic to offshore drilling as well, but Joe Biden in New Hampshire three years ago said, 'I will not drill on federal lands, period, period, period.' And so, for all the climate-minded and environmental voters who were animated by that, this is devastating, this is a huge setback, because it is not just about the caribou and the bird life and the polar bears up there. At this point, it is about adding more to the carbon blanket in the sky that is changing predictable weather and everything we know about life."