The move is “a monumental step forward in the fight for Indigenous rights and environmental justice,” a tribal leader said before the decision was final. The Biden administration on Friday blocked the construction of an industrial road that would have opened up access for mining in the Alaskan wilderness, earning praise from campaigners who said […]
Anchorage, AK— U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) Friday released the following statements after the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) finally released its long-delayed draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed Ambler Access Project (AAP). “This road is guaranteed under federal law and […]
Fairbanks, AK – The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) released earlier today reinforces the Tanana Chiefs Conference’s (TCC) opposition to the proposed Ambler industrial mining road. The 37 Tribes of Interior Alaska have lived on and with the lands being threatened by the proposed industrial mining road for […]
King Cove, AK – The King Cove Group (King Cove Corporation, Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove, Native Village of Belkofski, City of King Cove and the Aleutians East Borough) provided the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Court decision published Thursday. As former U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt recognized, this is a health […]