With BLM approval at hand, Alaska agency uses emergency meeting to fund controversial mine road
“The board action ensures that we won’t miss a minute of that 2020 field season.”
An Alaska state agency used an emergency meeting to shift $35 million into a fund that will be used to start summer field work on a controversial road cutting more than 200 miles into the Brooks Range foothills to gain access to an isolated mining district in Arctic Alaska.
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