The Biden Administration recently gave the green light to a gas pipeline project in Alaska.
Natural gas exports from the Alaska LNG project will be shipped to Asia, making it possible for the United States to compete with Russia. Exports have been approved to go to countries that the United States does not have a free trade agreement. Supporters of the project want to see it operational by 2030. However, environmentalists sound the alarm about the pipeline project.
The Department of Energy reaffirmed its approval of the project, which happened in 2020 under the Trump administration. However, they did amend it to include environmental protections. According to Fox News, The Department of Energy today issued an order amending a 2020 decision to impose new environmental requirements that prevents venting carbon dioxide, in addition to reaffirming all prior environmental conditions, the DOE said in a statement. This order does not approve construction of the project that was done by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in 2020.
Many are behind the project and want to see it finished. They boast of the thousands of jobs it will create and show that it will benefit the economy. Not only will the exports of natural gas create jobs, but it will also allow the United States to increase natural gas exports.
However, Liz Jones isnt fond of the idea. Liz Jones is an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversitys Climate Law Institute. Jones says its tragic to see this project approved mere months after Biden gave the green light to another controversial project, the Willow Project.
According to Fox News, This project will send billions of cubic feet of gas a day across Alaska and through waters teeming with wildlife, all to be burned up on foreign shores into our overheating atmosphere, Jones said. The Alaska LNG project should never have been approved.
While Biden is approving this project, Russia has plans to expand its dominance in the sector with more pipelines for its LNG projects. Russia is known for being one of the worlds largest energy exporters, and Biden is trying to compete with that. However, many say this leads to his climate presidency going downhill faster and faster.
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