To: The Alaska State House, The Alaska State Senate, and Governor Mike Dunleavy
No Road to Ambler
Governor Parnell, stop your aggressive push to build a 220 mile road from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District over 161 of Alaska's rivers and streams. It is fiscally irresponsible and environmentally disastrous.
Why is this important?
Governor Parnell proposes a 220-mile road from the Dalton Highway to the Ambler Mining District through the southern Brooks Range so that foreign companies may extract Alaska's resources. As of July 2012, the road to Ambler has received $9.25 million from the state Capital Budget since 2010 to study the route options. The road itself would cost at least $430 million to build and $8.5 million a year to maintain. Private corporations should gamble with their own money, not the state's.