Amid a global spike in fuel costs, the tiny Northwest Alaska villages of Shungnak and Ambler reported some of the most eye-watering prices at the pump in the past few months — more than $25 per gallon for gas in both communities, located on the Kobuk River.
Enter the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, or AIDEA. That’s the state-owned economic development corporation that hopes to build a mining road across the remote area where…