Lobbying against this road are some locals, some environmental groups, and an airplane pilot who currently makes money by ferrying people and equipment across this very terrain, where there are no roads. The guy you need to hire because there are no roads is one of the guys lobbying against the road. AdvertisementThis detail was almost buried in this excellent Bloomberg investigative piece on the Ambler Road project. The most important part of the Ambler Road story is how the Trump administration is using its regulatory control over this area to extract concessions from a mining company. ‘We’ve always taken that money, and then we’ve used it to lobby against the road,’ he says.