Hi all,
The Center for American Progress has released a new report:
The Biden Administration’s
Opportunity to Protect the Brooks Range From Unnecessary Mining via Ambler Road. The Biden administration recently released the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
for Ambler Road, quantifying the proposed project’s impact on wildlife and local communities. The project would risk almost 17 million acres of wild and connected public lands, disrupt wildlife, and harm subsistence values in the region. The
comment period for
this EIS closes Tuesday, December 19.
Despite the mining industry’s attempts to frame Ambler Road as a necessary avenue to accessing critical minerals for the clean energy transition, the area’s mineral
deposits are speculative or are simply not clean energy minerals. There is no rationale in building a road to nowhere, all for the speculative hope of developing resources that already exist in places that are easier to access and don’t compromise the same
cultural and environmental values that Ambler Road would. The administration now has the opportunity to protect the environmental and subsistence values of Brooks Range by choosing not to allow industry to expand their grasp on U.S. public lands through this
stretch of the Arctic.
Read about the Biden administration’s opportunity to protect the Brooks Range from unnecessary and speculative mining:
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Thanks,
Sam Zeno
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Research Associate, Conservation Policy
Center for American Progress
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