Trump’s approval of the 211-mile Ambler Road Project through Gates of the Arctic National Park hinges on winning an “AI arms race.”President Donald Trump approved on Monday the construction of a 211-mile road right through the Brooks Range Foothills and across the Northwestern Alaskan Arctic, including 26 miles of Gates of the Arctic National Park. The administration justified its decision to allow a mining company to carve through the arctic foothills with a simple explanation: Building the road will benefit the American artificial intelligence industry.Trump’s approval of the Ambler Road Project is a reversal for the federal government. Only last year, the Bureau of Land Management released its Record of Decision selecting “No Action” on Ambler Road, in cooperation with Alaska tribal councils, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and many others.
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123 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Oct
That's such a stupid headline.
There's an unfathomable amount of Alaska wilderness. For some reason, Alaskans are expected to forego all of the economic development that everyone else in America gets to enjoy.
Alaska's the only state with a significant amount of it's population not connected to each other by road, btw.
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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 8 Oct
I don't know if that's blown out of proportion, maybe, because I haven't seen the deets or the plan. But based on the article, it's gonna affect a ton of ecosystems. Is it worth the trade-off? I can't answer that.
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33 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Oct
There will still be fewer roads there than almost anywhere else.
One lightly used seasonal road is not going to destroy a vast ecosystem. If it were going to, then we'd all be dead, because there's way more disruption of almost every other ecosystem on the planet.
The environmental hysterics make the same claim every time anything new is being built up there and they're never right about it. Alaska remains 99.99% pristine wilderness.
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 9 Oct
True. Same thing happens here, we’ve got lithium and supposedly oil too, but we’ve never managed to make any real money off it. Guess we’re just saving it for when the world runs out! Hahaha.
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 9 Oct
Don't let the American military hear that you have oil
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 9 Oct
😂 Over the years, people have talked about oil reserves in the Portuguese maritime zone, based on some prospecting studies, but no one's ever really gone ahead with drilling because of complaints from environmentalists and that crowd. Wouldn't be surprised if someone already drilled a pipe just outside Portugal's zone. Hahaha.
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