What is Willow project

Five decades ago, the late Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah described America's 'power madness.'

the price for a pound of live cattle was $0.70; today it is $1.65.” On the one hand it’s a big difference. I wrote: “In 2000, for example, the price for a pound of live cattle was $70; today it’s $165.” Uhhh … [The Hil](https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3885442-on-willow-democrats-should-listen-more/) [l](https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3885442-on-willow-democrats-should-listen-more/), writing: “Alaskans share the desire to phase out fossil fuels. If only the hunger for petroleum subsided in direct proportion to the craving for lithium. The proposed mining would cause the land to subside dramatically, reducing Oak Flat — the [ancestral homeland of several Southwestern tribal nations](https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-justice-at-oak-flat-courts-and-politicians-fail-tribes) and the traditional location of San Carlos Apache coming-of-age ceremonies — to nothing more than a vast crater. While most of these prospects are merely twinkles in would-be-lithium-miners’ eyes, one of the biggest and most controversial projects is now underway. The primary reason is to cut off funding for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the bill’s sponsors also hope to jumpstart the domestic uranium mining industry, which has been in a coma for the last several years. But Biden was under intense pressure to approve the plan, not only from the usual Republicans and industry-funded suspects, but also from many Alaska Native leaders and Democratic Rep. [keep the San Juan plant cranking away](https://www.hcn.org/articles/energy-industry-will-carbon-capture-help-clean-new-mexicos-power-or-delay-its-transition) by installing carbon capture — and reaping taxpayer-funded federal subsidies. He told the senators: “When for centuries our people have lived in relative harmony with the land, it is all but impossible to understand a power plant complex destroying the timeless balance with nature in a few short years. But just when it seems as if coal-power madness is collapsing, someone jumps in to try to prop it up. “The formula is very simple and politically sound: Indian land, Indian coal and Indian water will generate Indian power.