Alaska agency signs a right-of-way agreement for a controversial Arctic mining road
The deal gives AIDEA 50 years to build an access road through wilderness areas — including caribou habitat — to a remote mining project.
Two days after it submitted nearly all the bids in a much-anticipated but industry-shunned oil lease sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an Alaska state agency announced an agreement intended to advance a different controversial Arctic development project.
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