The company behind the Willow project, ConocoPhillips, says it will create local investment and thousands of jobs. Sonny Ahk, a young Iñuipat activist from Alaska who campaigned against Willow, said the development would "lock in Arctic oil and gas extraction for another 30 years and catalyse future oil expansion in the Arctic". So they've tried to balance the approval with new bans on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic Ocean