{"id":1899408,"date":"2023-03-16T15:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-biden-over-backlash-on-willow-project-kept-his-word-where-he-can\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T19:33:43","slug":"white-house-defends-biden-over-backlash-on-willow-project-kept-his-word-where-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-biden-over-backlash-on-willow-project-kept-his-word-where-he-can\/","title":{"rendered":"White House defends Biden over backlash on Willow Project: &#8216;Kept his word where he can&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-defends-biden-over-backlash-on-willow-project-kept-his-word-where-he-can%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1899408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-7 col-lg-8 col-xl-9 float-left body colgap-l-50\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBodyWrapper\">\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_78748495\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">                <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"SVB collapse Explainer\">               <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday, followed by New York-based Signature Bank on Sunday, with shares of San Francisco-based plummeting by more than 70% on Monday. 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This large-scale oil drilling and production project is huge. <\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist activists have reacted furiously to President Joe Biden&#8217;s breach of a campaign pledge not to approve. &#8220;new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters,&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted on Biden &#8220;kept his word where he can by law&#8221; The company also highlighted that it had preexisting lease rights. <\/p>\n<p><b>THE CLOCK IS TICKING BIDEN ON THE COVID-19 ORIGINS CLASSIFICATION BILL<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Interior Department said, some of the company&#8217;s leases are decades old, granted by prior administrations. The company has a legal right to those leases. The department&#8217;s options are limited when there are legal contracts in place,&#8221; Jean-Pierre stated this during a White House briefing. <\/p>\n<p>The Interior Department&#8217;s Bureau of Land Management announced earlier this week that it had approved three of five potential drilling sites for the Willow Project. This project is scheduled to take place in a federal oil reserve similar to Indiana. <\/p>\n<p>An array of progressives, including Senator Ed Markey (D, MA), attacked the Biden government for allowing the project forward. They cited his past comments about new oil projects in federal lands and criticized Biden&#8217;s previous statements. Biden had previously pledged to not allow the project to be greenlit during the 2020 election cycle. &#8220;new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Number one, no more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, no more drilling on federal lands, no more drilling, including offshore, no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, No. 1,&#8221; Biden spoke at the time. <\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre cited an ex-official from the Clinton administration who stated that ConocoPhillips had been dissolved. &#8220;lease rights and that can&#8217;t be ignored.&#8221; She also claimed that Biden has made big strides in environmental causes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president is delivering the most aggressive climate agenda in U.S. history. And that is going to be his continued commitment to the American people,&#8221; She spoke. <\/p>\n<p><b>CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE WASHINGTON XAMINER<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>CNN reported that 9.2 million metric tonnes of carbon could be released into the atmosphere by the project. That&#8217;s roughly equivalent to 2,000,000 gas-powered cars. Initial estimates indicated that the project would produce 180,000 barrels per day and 500,000,000 barrels over its life span on five of the five requested pads. <\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s decision on the Willow Project was seen by some as a move to the center in advance of the midterm election and was welcomed as such by moderates within his party like Sen. Joe Manchin (D\u2013WV).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;Read More from&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/white-house-defends-biden-backlash-willow-project\">White House defends Biden in the face of backlash over Willow Project: &#8220;Kept his word when he could&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden administration&#8217;s approval of the ConocoPhillips Willow Project, a large-scale oil drilling project. Environmentalist activists have bristled at President Joe Biden, arguing he broke a campaign pledge to not approve \u201cnew oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters,&#8221; but Jean-Pierre insisted Biden &#8220;kept his word<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4265,3620,11082,4549,3653,5566,4146,3765,20637,9147],"class_list":["post-1899408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-backlash","tag-biden","tag-can","tag-defends","tag-house","tag-kept","tag-project","tag-white","tag-willow","tag-word"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}