#ambleraccessproject — Public Fediverse posts

Ambler Metals mining project in Alaska dealt major blow after Iñupiat peoples agency NANA refuses to renew land-use permit to build an access road because of the threat to the Western Arctic caribou herd.

#AmblerAccessProject

https://alaskapublic.org/2024/05/09/alaska-native-corporation-ending-involvement-in-controversial-ambler-road-project/

@Nonilex The red line on this map shows the scope of the road-that-will-not-be. Black lines are existing roads.
#AmblerAccessProject #Alaska

Open GISsurfer map:
https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=67.802457,-157.053050&zoom=5&basemap=ESRI_National_Geographic&overlay=Ambler_Road_Proposed_Route,Existing_Roads&data=overlay^name=Ambler_Road_Proposed_Route^url=https://gis.tananachiefs.org/arcgisserver/rest/services/projects/Ambler_road/MapServer^layers=4||overlay^name=Existing_Roads^url=https://gis.tananachiefs.org/arcgisserver/rest/services/projects/Ambler_road/MapServer^layers=3

The #Interior Dept will to announce that there should be “no action” on the federal land where the road known as the #AmblerAccessProject would be built…. A formal denial of the project will come later this year….

The road was essential to reach what is estimated to be a $7.5B copper deposit buried under #EcologicallySensitiveLand. There are currently no #mines in the area & no requests for permits have been filed w/the govt; the road was a first step.

#SaveRoadless #ClimateCrisis