A mining firm and the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority will have spent a combined $54 million on the project by the end of 2024.
An unfinished road leads from Shungnak northeast toward the community of Kobuk, the Dahl Creek airstrip, and the Ambler Mining District on July 23, 2021. Kobuk and the Dahl Creek airstrip are around eight miles from Shungnak.
“If that means going above and beyond, we need to do it. I mean, take some dozers and drills and make it happen,” he said.“There’s a lot of opportunity on our plate, and I look forward to progressing all of it. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it, so we’ll just keep pushing forward,” he said.
Doyon-owned land lies in the path of the top two preferred routes for Ambler Road; a third option, identified in a federal analysis earlier this fall, crosses land where Doyon owns subsurface rights but not rights to the surface. Doyon sued AIDEA in mid-September over a separate issue involving the Mustang Pad, an AIDEA-funded oil development project on the North Slope.
AIDEA CEO Randy Ruaro told board members that he believes Doyon’s decision to end its cooperation agreement with AIDEA on Ambler Road was motivated by the conflict over Mustang.
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