The Trump administration on Friday released documents that pushed two controversial Arctic Alaska projects — one a road, and the other an oilfield — closer to reality, according to Arctic Today.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a draft environmental impact statement for the Ambler Road Project, which would carve a 211-mile road through the Brooks Range foothills to an isolated region of northwestern Alaska that holds copper reserves. The road is needed to make Ambler district mining commercially feasible.
On the same day, the agency released its draft environmental impact statement on ConocoPhillips Alaska’s plan to develop its Willow prospect, located in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The prospectit holds what ConocoPhillips has estimated as up to 750 million barrels of oil.