In a court filing today, the Biden administration agreed with road opponents that the environmental analysis of the project is flawed.
The Interior Department wants to reconsider the federal right-of-way permits that the Trump administration granted.. Sen. Lisa Murkowski called the move a setback for the project but said the fight is not over.
“This project is too important to us in the state, to the people in the region, and really to the country for the resource,” said Murkowski. The Ambler mining district is believed to contain large amounts of good-quality copper and other minerals that proponents say will be important to an economy based on renewable resources. The proposed access road would stretch 211 miles in the Brooks Range, with 26 of those miles in the Gates of the Arctic National Park.
State Sen. Donny Olson, a Democrat who represents the region, said his constituents need the road and the mining it will support. The project, though, is controversial. Tanana Chiefs Conference President Brian Ridley calls it a threat to cultural resources and the subsistence way of life.
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