Researchers shows that the  Western Arctic herd is choosing a traditional route which passes the Red Dog mine and the 52 miles of road that link it to the ocean. Jim Dau’s research explains that caribou encountering the mine and road often eddy above the road as they decide how and when to cross it and their movement is slowed. …

While the DEC states the copper concentrations in the discharge are above “threshold effect level”, a level that will affect marine life, AIDEA maintains it is “not at a level that would be considered hazardous.” Continuing discharge events are still regularly documented. Read the full article here

In Arizona, hundreds of workers received layoff notices from mining companies in response to a weak global demand. Tucson-based Asarco stated that it plans to shut down a concentrator plant in Hayden and slow production at a mine in Ray. The mine has already had two rounds of layoffs this year. “We’ve always understood mining has a finite life and …

Please sign the petition to stop the proposed road to Ambler. Click here to voice your opinion  No Road to Ambler!!!

“A new study reveals that catastrophic mine waste failures are increasing in frequency, severity, and costs all around the world. The authors point toward poor regulations, poor practices, dicey mining economics, and ever larger mines as key factors behind those disasters.” The article state that: “nearly half of all recorded “serious failures” happened in modern times, between 1990 and 2010. …

Swapping sacred land for foreign profit, no matter what the Environmental Impact Study says. Sound familiar? “The site will doubtless be destroyed for any purpose other than mining; Resolution Copper Mining will hollow out a vast chamber that, when it caves in, will leave a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit. The company itself has likened the result of its planned mining at …

High Country News reports on the proposed road to Ambler. “It’s hard to find a place more remote than Bettles, Alaska. The village of 15 people lies 35 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Koyukuk River, accessible to the outside world only by an ice road, boat or plane. And 69-year-old mayor Gary Hanchett likes it that way. …

The final report from Governor Walker’s Infrastructure transition team was released and recommends AIDEA/AEA have better oversight and an independent audit to ensure that decisions on project funding are based on the good of Alaska rather than political decisions. View the full report here infrastructure_final    

Now is the time to act. At the recent meetings in  Fairbanks many people from the Koyukuk River and Kobuk River regions showed publicly that they  do not want the Ambler Mining Road to be built. Please write to Governor Walker and Lte. Governor Mallott. Ask them to direct AIDEA to not file for a right-of-way and stop work on …

Brooks Range Council has put up a new petition requesting that the new Alaskan Governor (Governor Walker) put an end to the proposed road immediately. Please sign by clicking here!