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“Alaska is America’s natural resource warehouse.” That is what Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy told then-President Trump in 2018. But our home is far more than storage for the next fad of ...
Doyon, the regional Native corporation for Interior Alaska, owns 10-12 miles of the two primary planned routes of the 211-mile Ambler Road. Doyon Ltd. drops support for Ambler Road, at least ...
The draft SEIS notes that Ambler mining road construction and any future mining activity would pollute the air and water, threatening wildlife populations and 66 Alaska Native communities. Trucks ...
Projects like the Ambler Road help us to develop skills and secure jobs that empower our people, much like [the] Trans-Alaska Pipeline did in the 1970s. ” For many Alaskans, however, the economic ...
Alaska stands at a pivotal moment and the stars have aligned for our state. The Ambler Road — a long-planned 211-mile industrial use corridor connecting the Ambler Mining District to the Dalton ...
An access road runs between the community of Kobuk and the Bornite camp in the Ambler Mining District, on July 24, 2021. The area has been explored for its mineral potential since the 1950s, and ...
A river snakes outside Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska on Sept. 11, 2022. A portion of Ambler Road would run through the park, a significant wilderness area.
The Biden administration is preparing to reject a controversial road-building project needed to mine major copper and zinc deposits in the remote Alaska wilderness, a move sought by native tribes ...
Male caribou antlers are seen in the Oolah Valley at the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska. The proposed 211-mile Ambler Road under consideration by the Interior Department ...
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
NANA Regional Corporation announced on Wednesday that it plans to withdraw from the Ambler Road project, at least for now. That’s according to a press release saying the project does not align ...
Congress wrote into law that a road shall be built but this is being ignored by the U.S. Department of the Interior, which released a final environmental analysis on April 19, 2024, recommending ...