There is no economic return on the Ambler access road for mining companies without massive public subsidies from the state of Alaska.
Why should Alaskans finance an environmental disaster for the benefit of outside investors? This Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority boondoggle is far worse than the state turning the Richardson Highway into a mining road, because Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s mining road will be 95% financed by Lower 48 gas taxes.
— Frank Rast
Anchorage
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