#Biden administration blocks #AmblerRoad, strengthens protections for the National Petroleum Reserve in #Alaska https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2024/04/19/biden-administration-blocks-ambler-road-strengthens-protections-for-npr-a/ #USpol #Conservation
"administration said the road would cause irreparable damage to #wildlife including #caribou, which many local people rely on for food... They also announced stronger protections for 13 million acres inside the NPR-A, sensitive federal land in the #Arctic... #Environmentalists and #Indigenous rights groups applauded the decisions"
Biden administration blocks Ambler Road, strengthens protections for NPR-A
The U.S. Interior Department on Friday essentially rejected the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority’s proposal to build the Ambler Road, a 211-mile industrial road that would have cut through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve to access copper and zinc deposits in Northwes
Today, 5pm Pacific, public seminar by Dr. Kevin Fraley (U Alaska-Fairbanks) on potential impacts (eg heavy metal contamination of water and fish) to aquatic ecosystems from
#AmblerRoad, "a proposed industrial corridor" that would enable massive mining projects.
https://www.tananachiefs.org/events/uaf-public-seminar-the-ambler-road-potential-impacts-to-aquatic-ecosystems-of-the-brooks-range-and-the-role-of-scientists-in-conservation-advocacy/#GreenColonialismUAF Public Seminar: The Ambler Road: Potential impacts to aquatic ecosystems of the Brooks Range, and the role of scientists in conservation advocacy
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Fraley, Fisheries Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Via Zoom Register Here: https://alaska.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcOCgrzsoHNDXWKS9qION1eIvskpWVuzb#/registration The Ambler Road is a proposed industrial corridor that would stretch more than 200 miles across the foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range. The road would originate at the Dalton Highway, bisect Gates of the Arctic National Preserve, and terminate in the Ambler Mining District along the ... <p class="read-more-container"><a title="UAF Public Seminar: The Ambler Road: Potential impacts to aquatic ecosystems of the Brooks Range, and the role of scientists in conservation advocacy" class="read-more button" href="https://www.tananachiefs.org/events/uaf-public-seminar-the-ambler-road-potential-impacts-to-aquatic-ecosystems-of-the-brooks-range-and-the-role-of-scientists-in-conservation-advocacy/#more-37828" aria-label="More on UAF Public Seminar: The Ambler Road: Potential impacts to aquatic ecosystems of the Brooks Range, and the role of scientists in conservation advocacy">Continue Reading</a></p>
Join Climate Reality Bay Area's Youtube Premiere tonight at 6 pm Pacific, to see 10-minute versons of our two Indigenous Speaker events recorded this summer about Alaska (
#WillowProject and
#AmblerRoad ) and
#Marin County (including
#PointReyes ). Includes video updates/successes/next steps from our speakers. Eg, for Ambler Road, our speaker is asking us to submit public comments to the Bureau of Land Management (public comment period ends Dec. 1).
#ClimateJustice https://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/chapter-events/2023/11/1/online-premiere-land-back-indigenous-resistance
YouTube Premiere: Land Back + Indigenous Resistance — Climate Reality Bay Area
Join climate leaders for the premieres of “Land Back in Marin” and “Indigenous Resistance in Alaska”
The Willow Project and Ambler Road: Indigenous Resistance to Extraction and Eco-colonialism in Alaska — Bay Area Climate Leaders
Come join us on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 6 – 7 p.m. Pacific time, to welcome Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee and Angel Stickman, Inupiaq/Shungnak, Alaska Mining Council and Advocate for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Victims, who will discuss some
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