We have to be very vigilant about projects such as the Ambler Road. If not, it could be a huge disaster for our people. The Ambler Road wouldn’t be a Red Dog Mine. There are too many lands that are not ours. And the short time that these mines could be open all over the place would make more access …
We know and they know they violated our rights
P.J. Simon, president of the Tanana Chiefs Conference, who grew up in Allakaket, one of the villages suing the Department of the Interior, says the department should start over. “We know and they know they violated our rights,” Simon said. “But right now, for whatever reason, they’re not addressing this lawsuit.” Full Politico article by Adam Federman, photos by Nathaniel …
What Alaska could do with the money if we hadn’t spent it on dreams
Opinion by Larry Persily Jan 27, 2021 in the Fairbanks Daily News Miner The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority 20 years ago poured more than $50 million into a doomed-to-fail seafood processing plant in Anchorage. Next on AIDEA’s dream-it-and-hope-it-works list has been $70 million loaned and invested over the past eight years in the Mustang oil field on the North Slope. …
Villages sue Trump administration over proposed road to Ambler Mining District
“A tribal consortium and five tribal governments in Alaska are suing the federal government to stop the 200-mile so-called Ambler Road that would carve through wilderness in Northwest Alaska to support mining in a mineral-rich district. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, representing 42 tribes in Interior Alaska, said in a statement on Wednesday that a federal review of the project’s impacts …
Arctic warming accelerates permafrost thaw at Red Dog mine
“The multinational company that operates the massive Red Dog Mine in Northwest Alaska says that thawing permafrost linked to global warming has forced it to spend nearly $20 million to manage its water storage and discharge. The problems at Red Dog, one of the world’s largest zinc mines, show how climate change poses a challenge not just to residents of …
AIDEA approves a $1 million survey plan for this summer
During EIS meetings BLM estimated the two lane road cost to be at least double what is quoted in this article. Read the full article here: Alaska investment board approves summer work for controversial Arctic mining road —- Below are some summary quotes from the June 25th, 2020 Anchorage News article: “Alaska’s state investment corporation has approved a $1 million …
Miners urged to account for all employee fatalities before paying executive bonuses
The publication, Mining Mx Higher Grade, cited the case of a South32 employee who died after becoming trapped under the wheels of his truck while delivering coal. South32 has options in the Ambler Mining District and is looking at other claim possibilities along the southern Brooks Range. read the complete article here: Miners Urged to account for all employee fatalities …
Overwhelming NO to Ambler Road at Fairbanks BLM meeting
Conservationists, hunters spurn Ambler project in BLM hearing
Villagers, hunters, rafters, backpackers and conservation groups denounce state-financed mining road across northern Alaska wilderness
Conservationists, hunters and villagers came out in Anchorage Tuesday night to denounce the state-financed Ambler Road proposal. BLM, the Army Corps of Engineers and HDR, the company contracted to develop the EIS, sat at the front of the room and did not answer questions during testimony. Gates of the Arctic National Park Superintendent Greg Dudgeon was also there, but for …
Trilogy Metals stock continues to drop as CEO resigns
Following a class action lawsuit in Canada, and a failed mine in Nome, the CEO of a Canadian owned mine proposal in remote Alaska has resigned.