Hearings Begin on Proposal for First Offshore Oil Project in Federal Arctic Waters
A series of hearings opens in
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"Giving us Liberty could give us the death of imperiled whales and polar bears. Conditions in
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"A real environmental disclosure would show there's no safe way to drill in
Background
The project's environmental analysis predicts the project will cause at least 70 oil spills during its estimated 25-year lifetime. And if a blowout occurs, the project could result in a catastrophic spill of up to 4.6 million barrels of oil, about the same volume as the
Rapidly changing conditions in
The environmental study says the project will harm fish, marine mammals, coastal birds, air and water quality and climate change. For example, the review finds that construction of the project could contribute to the injury and death of polar bears. The project would also destroy parts of the Boulder Patch, a unique series of underwater boulders and cobbles that supports the richest and most biologically diverse communities of aquatic life in the
Concerns about Hilcorp's ability to build and manage the project were heightened earlier this year when its underwater gas pipeline in
Hilcorp expects to extract about 167 million barrels of oil from the Liberty project. Drilling for and consuming that oil would result in about 64.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas pollution being emitted into the atmosphere, worsening climate change.
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