US President Joe Biden said he was counseled to not disapprove of the ConocoPhillips Oil project in Willow, Alaska as he could be defeated in court.
“The difficult decision was on what we do with Willow project in Alaska and my strong inclination was to disapprove of it across the board, but the advice I got from counsel was that if that were the case, we may very well lose that case in court to the oil company,” Biden said during a joint conference in Canada with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. That would have impeded his administration’s efforts to conserve significant amounts of Alaskan lands forever, Biden continued.
