DESIGNER

Mateen Gardizi

PROFILE/DESCRIPTION

Article text courtesy of nytimes.com. 

In Pristine Alaska, an Oil Giant Prepares to Drill for Decades

On the snowy tundra at the northernmost tip of the United States, more than two dozen yellow dump trucks wait on a glistening ice pad.

It’s been just days since the Biden administration approved an $8 billion project to drill for oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the nation’s single largest expanse of untouched wilderness. But the oil giant ConocoPhillips is already in motion, massing equipment and flying in workers and provisions to this vast frozen flatland 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.