Alaska is, as I've been saying and writing for years, America's treasure chest. Previous administrations have insisted on treating the Great Land like a giant national park. Democrats in particular have seemed determined to keep most of Alaska's energy and mineral wealth sealed away.

That's changing now. On Monday, President Trump ordered his administration to fast-track approvals for Alaska's Ambler Road Project, a road that will run from just south of Wiseman on the Dalton Highway (which runs from just north of Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay) to the Ambler mining district, east of the coastal town of Kotzebue.

Donald J. Trump approved the appeal of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA), directing his Administration to promptly issue authorizations necessary for the establishment of the Ambler Road Project. This project will provide road transportation access to the Ambler Mining District.

This order overturns the "Autopen Joe" Biden administration's order to halt approvals of this project. The President's announcement has a detailed list of benefits for Alaska and for the United States:

• The Ambler Road Project is vitally important to America’s national defense and economic prosperity.
• An access road is crucial to unlocking critical minerals located in this currently-inaccessible area of Alaska, which has been characterized as one of the largest undeveloped copper-zinc mineral belts in the world and contains extensive deposits of copper, silver, gold, lead, cobalt, and other strategic metals.
• The road will provide essential surface transportation access for the more than 1,700 active mining claims in the District, supporting expanded mineral exploration, mine development, and operations.
• Construction of the road will directly support 2,730 jobs, driving income, spending, and economic growth in rural Alaska.
  • Alaska is projected to receive more than $1.1 billion in revenues from mining license tax revenues, corporate income taxes, production royalties, and claim rents associated with this project.
• The project takes extensive mitigation measures, including caribou protection policies and fish passage culverts, to minimize environmental impacts.

Note the strategic minerals named: Copper, silver, gold, lead, cobalt, and, we should include, rare-earth minerals, a great deal of which we are currently buying from China.

That last bullet is key. If the Alaska Pipeline showed us anything, it is that we can have a robust energy policy in Alaska while still maintaining Alaska's unique beauty, its wildlife, and its untouched country. It's hard to wrap one's head around the vastness of the Great Land, especially if one lives in one of those tiny East Coast states. Our Borough alone is larger than the state of Maryland, and some Alaska post offices serve areas the size of Rhode Island or Delaware. In comparison to this vast, vast expanse, the amount of land required for exploitation of Alaska's mineral and energy resources is tiny indeed, and as the administration points out, we already know how to mitigate any impact on wildlife, including the annual migrations of the huge caribou herds and the salmon runs.

This is a good move for Alaska, and it's good for America. And, speaking as an Alaskan, I'll say, "It's about time."

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It is as yet unclear if or when the road will be open to private traffic, which could open up a great deal of land to recreational opportunities as well.

So, a good deal for Alaska, for America, and a chance to reduce our dependency on foreign sources of strategic minerals - and maybe some new areas open to fish, and to hunt caribou and moose. I call that a win-win, and, yes, this is what we voted for.

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