The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North
Sorted by date Results 1 - 1 of 1
At an Anchorage scoping meeting on Aug. 16, Bob Schneider, manager of BLM's Fairbanks District Office, invited public comments on the criteria for bureau's planning effort for the southern portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. As part of the south NPR-A plan the Bureau of Land Management intends to assess the potential for hard rock mining and coal leasing, and the possible impacts of these activities, Schneider said. In recent years BLM has issued land use and activity plans for northeast and northwest NPR-A and...