The Ambler Road project received a key permitting document today from the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM is the federal agency overseeing permitting for the project.
The Ambler Road is a proposed 211-mile industrial corridor that would stretch west from the Dalton highway to gain access to a region speculated to have high concentrations of copper and other strategic metals.
The draft supplemental environmental impact statement, or S-EIS, released today is the latest permitting document for the controversial project.
According to a press release from BLM, the S-EIS evaluated potential subsistence impacts to 66 communities, more than two times as many as were identified in a previous assessment.
United States District Court Judge Sharon Gleason in 2022 found that that document lacked adequate tribal consultation and provided insufficient analysis of subsistence impacts under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
