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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is approving the controversial major Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, one of President Joe Biden’s most consequential climate choices that is likely to draw condemnation from environmentalists who say it flies in the face of the Democratic president’s pledges.

The announcement comes a day after the administration, in a big conservation move, said it would bar or limit drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.

Biden’s Willow plan would allow three drill sites initially, the sources said, which project developer ConocoPhillips has said would include about 219 total wells. A fourth drill site proposed for the project would be denied. The company has said it considers the three-site option workable.

Houston-based ConocoPhillips will relinquish rights to about 68,000 acres of existing leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.


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Good news for Texas and gas prices

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is approving the controversial major Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope, one of President Joe Biden’s most consequential climate choices that is likely to draw condemnation from environmentalists who say it flies in the face of the Democratic president’s pledges.

The announcement comes a day after the administration, in a big conservation move, said it would bar or limit drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.

Biden’s Willow plan would allow three drill sites initially, the sources said, which project developer ConocoPhillips has said would include about 219 total wells. A fourth drill site proposed for the project would be denied. The company has said it considers the three-site option workable.

Houston-based ConocoPhillips will relinquish rights to about 68,000 acres of existing leases in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.


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Good news for Texas and gas prices

Might need a pipeline. Or something.

The US produces nearly 12 MBPD per day.  This project might start pumping in 4 years 0.18 MBPD.

It's basically rounding error, and we're not even talking global oil production.

One of the amusing factoids is how US oil production surged when Obama was President and he never seemed to take credit for that.

Beautiful late Winter snow coming down now,  the last two mornings woke up to snow but the ground is above freezing so it melted. This is sticking,more winter weather 2 weeks into March than we had in February

Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers in the sky – that transport most of the water vapor outside of the tropics. These columns of vapor move with the weather, carrying an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. When the atmospheric rivers make landfall, they often release this water vapor in the form of rain or snow.

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how's come I don't remember hearing about these rivers in the past?
I just don't pay attention?
Maybe youse guys haven't discussed them enough?

I dunno. But these stupid things might make my rounds of golf on both Wednesday and Sunday very wet...

Atmospheric rivers are relatively long, narrow regions in the atmosphere – like rivers in the sky – that transport most of the water vapor outside of the tropics. These columns of vapor move with the weather, carrying an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. When the atmospheric rivers make landfall, they often release this water vapor in the form of rain or snow.

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how's come I don't remember hearing about these rivers in the past?
I just don't pay attention?
Maybe youse guys haven't discussed them enough?

Apparently the term dates to 1992.  It reminds me of "bomb cyclones", another term weather folks started using a few years back.  Obviously neither condition is new, but the terms are fairly new.  It sounds fancier than saying "A lot of moisture is headed out way and it's going to rain a lot."

We need rain. Been about 40 days now and our irrigation ponds are running low.

Apparently, the master HOA board is looking at the County to provide reclaimed water to our entire community. 

I will go to the next meeting and tell them how it should be done, so they (I) don't get raped by a contractor.