The Biden administration recently approved the controversial Willow project, which is an oil extraction project on Alaska's North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve. As a board member of Conoco Phillips, the corporation developing Willow, I understand you can't comment directly on that project because directors are not authorized to speak for the company on that. So let me ask you this way. Oil executives like all corporate executives run the company to increase the stock price. You know that better than I do. And that stock price is valued on future revenues derived from extracting and burning oil and methane gas. The science is really clear that we can't burn the deposits already on the balance sheets of the investor and state owned oil
It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate crisis become more apparent, we need leaders from all political and industrial perspectives to work together. In the U.S., climate is a polarizing issue where it’s too easy to assume that one side is working to reduce emissions and the other side is defending the status quo. But that’s only a caricature of reality. There are people from many ideological backgrounds trying to address the climate crisis. So how can common ground be found between environmentalists on the left and Republicans on the right? And what does an EV-driving member of the ConocoPhillips board have to say about reducing emissions?
Guests:
John Curtis, U.S. Representative (R-UT)
Arjun Murti, Partner, Veriten; Director, ConocoPhillips board
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