VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 1 | WINTER 2025
Alaska's rich deposits of critical and rare earth minerals remain essential to the state and federal economies, and must continue to be extracted.
announce $600 million in aid to build a railroad in Angola to help that country produce and market its critical miner- als. This is insane. During the first Trump adminis- tration, we made advances on all these fronts for Alaska and celebrated them for what they were: enormous advan- tages for our nation. Fortunately, Pres- ident-elect Trump has said repeatedly that Alaska, with its vast resources and its strategic location, will again be a key focus in the next Trump Adminis- tration. And the hard-working Alas- kans who help us realize our resource potential will be thanked, not demon- ized as they have been under the Biden Administration. Buy Greenland? If the price is right and the Danes are willing to sell, sure. But it is important to keep in mind what the father of the U.S. Air Force General Billy Mitchell prophetically said in 1935: “I believe that in the fu- ture, whoever controls Alaska controls the world. I think it is the most strate- gic place in the world.”
Road debt trap for countries in Asia. Alaska also has a wealth of miner- als and metals, with one of the largest known graphite deposits in the world. It has the tenth largest deposit of gold in the world. We have one of the largest zinc mines in the world. We also have a trove of critical and rare earth miner- als essential for our national defense, economy and renewable energy sector. The United States is almost wholly dependent on China for many of these minerals. But President Biden, cowing to radical environmental groups, has worked overtime to make sure that America’s minerals and metals in Alas- ka stay in the ground. For instance, the Trump Adminis- tration approved a road that is needed to access critical minerals and metals from one of our country’s richest de- posits — the Ambler Mining District in Alaska’s Interior. But the Biden Ad- ministration killed that road last June, even though federal law mandates it. Of course, that didn’t stop Joe Biden from recently traveling to Angola to
— is richer. Alaska holds an estimat- ed 40 billion barrels of oil reserves, and roughly 235 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. In just one oil field alone — Prudhoe Bay — Alaska reinjects as much natural gas every day as Oregon, Washington and California consume. Resource development is the heart and soul of the Alaskan economy. We continue to make progress — despite opposition from senior Biden officials — on commercializing these massive natural gas reserves with a large-scale LNG project that would get clean-burning Alaska natural gas to Americans, our Alaska-based military, future data centers that love Alaska’s cold, and our allies in Asia who des- perately need to diversify their supplies of natural gas away from countries like Russia and Qatar. This much-needed American LNG project would put America first by creating thousands of good-paying jobs, reducing our trade deficit by an estimat- ed $10 billion dollars annually, and being an effective counter to China’s Belt and
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