climatebrad | Biden in 2020: "No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period." @climatebrad | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 hours ago.
02/09/2020: At a town hall meeting on the campaign trail in Hudson, New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was asked about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and promised: "No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period. The Arctic Circle, it’s a disaster to do that. A big disaster.”"
On March 13, 2023, President Biden approved the Willow Project, a major new ConocoPhillips oil drilling project in Alaska above the Arctic Circle.
02/09/2020: At a town hall meeting on the campaign trail in Hudson, New Hampshire, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was asked about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and promised: "No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period. The Arctic Circle, it’s a disaster to do that. A big disaster.”"
On March 13, 2023, President Biden approved the Willow Project, a major new ConocoPhillips oil drilling project in Alaska above the Arctic Circle.