Our community needs funding for our utilities and buildings. The project will allow us to stay in our communities, sustaining our cultural traditions.
Updated: 19 minutes agoAn access road runs between the community of Kobuk and the Bornite camp in the Ambler Mining District, on July 24, 2021. The area has been explored for its mineral potential since the 1950s, and contains a number of significant copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver and cobalt deposits.
The voices opposing the Ambler Access Project have overlooked the growing support for the project among tribal communities. Most of these voices are not from the region. Eleven of the villages closest to the project have voiced their support for the permitting process to proceed. In February of this year, the villages of Huslia and Allakaket unanimously voted to withdraw from litigation against the project, leaving only two communities in the lawsuit.
Our subsistence lifestyle is not an easy one. Protection of the environment can coexist with opportunities to create stable jobs and funding for our community. Jobs allow our people to afford fuel, guns and ammunition, all of which are needed for subsistence hunting and fishing. Our community needs funding for our utilities and buildings. The AAP will allow us to stay in our communities, sustaining our cultural traditions.
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