The Trump administration is working with private mining companies on a plan to finance the divisive Ambler mining road in Alaska, including the government possibly taking partial ownership of the project.
The federal government is working with Vancouver-based Trilogy Metals, Australian-based South32 Limited, and their joint venture Ambler Metals, to create a “framework agreement” that would govern the financing and construction of the 211-mile-long gravel road, according to Trilogy’s Monday news release.
President Donald Trump is pushing to advance the gravel road, which is slated to dissect swaths of pristine wilderness in Alaska to provide access to a remote mining district in northwestern Alaska.
The road, which would connect the so-called Ambler mining district to the Dalton Highway, has drawn fierce pushback from tribes and environmental groups who say the project is financially risky, would benefit foreign companies and could devastate the western Arctic caribou herd and salmon already facing the brunt of climate change.
