President Trump on Monday signed an executive order approving the Ambler Road Project in Alaska, a 211-mile access road that will give mining companies the ability to access leased land for mineral development.
“We’re making [Alaska] greater, bigger, and more powerful and job-producing. It’s an economic gold mine, so to speak,” the President said.
This will revoke the Biden-era prohibition of Trump’s previously approved development.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Biden halted the Trump administration’s Ambler Road plans last April and banned oil and gas drilling in nearly half of Alaska’s petroleum reserve. The reserve is 23 million acres of public land for a national emergency oil supply originally intended for the US Navy, created in the early 1920s.
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“I signed this years ago, and Biden unsigned it for me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
“This was something that should have been long operating and making billions of dollars for our country and supplying a lot of energy and minerals and everything else that we’re talking about. And they undid it and wasted a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of effort, and now we’re starting again, and this time, we have plenty of time to get it done, and it’s going to be done properly,” Trump continued.
In March 2025, under Trump’s “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” Executive Order, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum led the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to “expand opportunities for exploration and development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” according to a press release. The BLM also began to take steps to reopen the Ambler Road project and other liquid natural gas pipelines in Alaska.
President Trump was joined in the Oval Office by Secretary Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and National Security Council mining expert David Copley while announcing the executive order.
Burgum said the Ambler Road project will provide mining companies access to “some of the richest mining deposits in all of America and in all of the world,” which are “absolutely essential to the defense industry.” He further emphasized the need to remain competitive against China, which currently controls “85 to 100% of all the mining and refining of the top 20 critical minerals,” he said.
Burgum further predicted that the construction of the road will be underway by Spring 2026.
Wright championed the move as a “tremendous achievement for the people of Alaska,” highlighting the boon to Alaska’s economy and America’s mining industry. “Biden thought it was appropriate to offshore both of these industries outside of our country. That has not left us in a strong place,” he added.
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