Stop the Ambler Road
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TCC and the tribes insist on a new decision process that looks proactively and holistically at the impacts of the Ambler road and associated activities.
The Ambler Road Project is a proposal for a 211-mile industrial access road and is intended to facilitate the development of at least four large-scale mines and potentially hundreds of smaller mines across the region. It would cross 11 major river systems and thousands of smaller rivers, streams, and wetlands-these waterways are highways for our subsistence lifestyle.
The network of roads and mines would cross many rivers and streams in the foothills of the Brooks Range upstream from villages in critical fish spawning areas. This can have devastating impacts on all fish in-migration and out-migration, spawning and rearing habitat, and will especially compromise species at risk like Chinook.
Fact About the Ambler Road Project
The Ambler Road would require about 48 bridges and nearly 3,000 culverts.
The Ambler Road will pierce the heart of the hunting and fishing lands that our people have depended on for thousands of years.
The road alone would cause harmful impacts along 125 miles and 200,000 acres of public lands managed by the State in trust for its people.
The Ambler Road project would be one of the biggest and most destructive in the State’s history.
The network of roads and mines would cross many rivers and streams in the foothills of the Brooks Range upstream from villages in critical fish spawning areas.
The project has immense potential to devastate summer chum spawning and rearing habitat and passage because of impacts from roads, culverts, dust, affluence and riparian site disturbances.
The project would provide potential for many side roads and further mine development.
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Additional Resources
BLM’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Reinforces Tanana Chiefs Conference’s Longstanding Claims in Ambler Road Opposition (October 2023)
- PRESS RELEASE: New Analysis Examines 8,000 Spills at Alaska’s 5 Largest Mines
- TCC and Area Tribes Thank Biden Administration for Recognizing Legal Defects in Ambler Road Decisions
- Tribes Denied Access to Subsistence Meetings in Ongoing Ambler Road Debacle
- Executive Board Resolution 2021-11
- Full Board Resolution 2014-54
- TCC Comments on Amber Rd. DEIS (10-29-2019)
- TCC Tribes Complaint Regarding Ambler Rd (10-07-2019)
- Second Amended and Supplemental Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (05-14-2021)