US President Donald Trump on Monday approved plans to build a 211-mile road through remote parts of Alaska to open up access to valuable mineral deposits, including copper, cobalt and gold. The Ambler Road project, located north of Fairbanks, had first been cleared during Trump’s earlier term in office, however, the Biden administration later halted it, citing threats to caribou and other wildlife, as well as to Alaska’s Native tribes that depend on hunting and fishing. At a ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump said the project “is something that should’ve been long operating and making billions of dollars for our country and supplying a lot of energy and minerals.” He also criticised former President Joe Biden, saying he “undid it and wasted a lot of time and a lot of money, a lo

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