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BLM Blocks Ambler Road, a 211-Mile Industrial Corridor in Alaska's Brooks Range
The BLM announced it would not greenlight the Ambler Road, a proposed project to access a copper deposit in Alaska's Brooks Range.
A proposed road that would have stretched 211 miles through the Brooks Range of Alaska to access a copper deposit worth an estimated $7.5 billion has been officially blocked by the Bureau of Land Management. “We expect foreign mining interests to continue their efforts to develop a private industrial corridor in the central Brooks Range,” says Jen Leahy, the Alaska senior program manager for the TRCP. The BLM’s announcement on Friday coincided with the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed withdrawal of 28 million acres of BLM-managed public lands on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.
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