Press Releases
& Links
June 12
- 2006
Citizens' Monitoring Report
May 30
- New Report Supports Zero Discharge-No Need for Oil/Gas Industry Toxic
Dumping
April 6 - Inletkeeper Denounces EPA Draft
Discharge Permit at Anchorage Public Hearing
February 14
- Feds Cancel Lower Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Sale
February 3
- Inletkeeper Inspects Grounded Tanker - Calls (Again!) for Tug Assists!
January 26 -
Salmon
Stream Temperatures Found Higher, Earlier, More Often
January 20 -
Cook
Inlet Beluga Whale Needs Habitat Protection
November 15 -
Cook
Inletkeeper Analysis Shows Oil Pipeline Spill Trends
July 12 -
Alternative
Proposed for the Knik Arm Crossing
July 12
- Knik Arm Bridge Alternatives Letter
May 27 -
Beluga Whale Conservation Plan
Comments
May 12 - Summer Newsletter "The
Keeper"
May 11 - ACTION ALERT - Help Save Beluga
Whales
10th Anniversary Celebration
July 16 & 17
10th Anniversary Commemorative Merchandise
In The News
Sept 28 - House OKs
pipeline regulations
By
Sam Bishop, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
WASHINGTON–A U.S. House
committee approved tougher inspection rules Wednesday for oil pipelines
like those that leaked at Prudhoe Bay this year, but Alaska Rep. Don
Young, chairman of a second committee with jurisdiction, said he’ll take
his time reviewing the proposal.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted Wednesday morning in favor
of a bill that would require the U.S. Department of Transportation to
regulate low-stress pipelines in the same manner as high-stress lines.
Low-stress lines are those with internal pressures below 20 percent of
their designed strength.
Only certain low-stress lines fall
under DOT regulation at present. The leaking transit lines that serve
the western and eastern operating areas of Prudhoe Bay are not federally
regulated, although a rule proposed by DOT late last month would change
that.
Young, chairman of the House
Transportation Committee, said Wednesday afternoon that he wants to
review the DOT’s new regulations before he agrees to the kind of broad
changes in law that the Energy and Commerce Committee approved earlier
in the day.
(full story)
Sept 14 -
Critics call pipeline rules inadequate
Hearing: Rep. Young left early and didn't question a top BP official.
By RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News
WASHINGTON -- The government's chief pipeline regulator told a House
committee Wednesday that his office will begin oversight of low-pressure
lines like the ones that corroded and leaked this year on Alaska's North
Slope.
(full story)
Sept 13- Lawmakers Question New
Pipeline Rules
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON -- New rules
would prevent the type of maintenance neglect that led to corrosion in miles
of Alaska North Slope pipelines, the government's top pipeline safety
regulator said Wednesday.
(full
story)
Sept 12 - Listen to Lois Epstein on Al Franken Part 1
Sept 12 - Listen to Lois Epstein on Al Franken Part 2
Listen to
Cook Inletkeeper’s Lois Epstein on Talk of Alaska
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Alaskan Oil Pipeline Leak Raises Environmental Concerns
Sept 1- Federal regulators propose rules for transit
pipelines The plan would increase oversight, but Cook Inletkeeper says
it doesn't go far enough
By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News
Federal pipeline regulators on
Thursday proposed new rules to toughen oversight of low-pressure pipelines
such as those that sprang leaks this year at Prudhoe Bay, hobbling the
nation's largest oil field.
(full story)
Sept 1-
Proposal would put ‘low-stress’ pipelines under federal rules
By Sam Bishop, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Anchorage, Alaska - Some oil field pipelines that operate at
lower pressures, such as two recent leakers in the Prudhoe Bay field, would
come under federal regulation for the first time under an agency proposal
released late Thursday. (full story)
April 21- Channel 2 (Anchorage) story on the 3/2 North
Slope leak
By Sean Doogan, KTUU
Anchorage, Alaska - A report issued by BP Exploration (Alaska)
Inc. and the State of Alaska
says Prudhoe Bay
pipeline leak detection systems are working. But a 200,000-gallon leak from
a transit pipe has showcased a growing problem on the North Slope
-- as older pipes corrode away, hard-to-detect leaks might not raise alarms
until it's too late.
(full story)
March 24 -
Permit for oil and gas discharges in Cook Inlet up for review
By Mike Mason, KBBI APRN
The permit that allows discharges from oil and gas platforms in Cook
Inlet is up for review.
(full story)
March 20 - Federal agency outlines corrective action for BP
over spill
By Lori Townsend, APRN
The federal Department of
Transportation's office of pipeline safety released the corrective action
order that it sent to BP last week. The order outlines specific corrections
that must take place before the transmission line that leaked as much as
267,000 gallons of crude oil onto the North Slope tundra can be put back
into service.
(full story)
February 3 - Oil-filled tanker runs aground in Alaska
By Hal Bernton, Seattle Times
An oil tanker carrying 4.9 million gallons of refinery fuels broke loose
from an Alaska loading dock Thursday morning, drifted a half-mile and ran
aground on a beach in the state's ice-clogged Cook Inlet
(full story)
September 9 - Knik
bridge costly to state
By ROSEMARY SHINOHARA - Anchorage Daily News
Paying for the
Knik Arm bridge and other specially "earmarked" projects will reduce other
federal highway money for Alaska by at least $50 million next year, a senior
state transportation official said Thursday
(full story)
August 13 - Mixing-zone decision near for
Alaskans
Laine Welch - Anchorage Daily News
KODIAK -- Alaskans will soon know whether the state intends to lift its ban on
mixing zones in fish-spawning streams.
(full
article)
July 24 - Knik Arm Crossing
hearing draws calls for alternatives
Margaret Bauman -Alaska Journal of Commerce
Project managers for the proposed $600 million Knik Arm Bridge
received a critique July 13 by Matanuska-Susitna Borough residents, whose
suggestions ranged from adding a railroad link across the structure, to putting
the project on hold.
(full
article)
June 22 -
Lower Cook Inlet
Designated Priority Conservation Area by Scientists
From the Gulf of California, with its
deep canyons, nutrient-rich upwellings and high levels of endemism, to the
20,000 kilometers of bays, inlets and inland drainage systems of the Pacific
Northwest and the high productivity of the Bering Sea, the west coast of North
America is home to unique and important shared marine environments.
(full
document)
July 12 - Coalition
emerges to fight Knik Arm bridge
By ROSEMARY SHINOHARA - Anchorage Daily News
A coalition of
environmental and public interest groups Monday objected to building a bridge
across Knik Arm, proposing alternatives such as ferry service and a commuter
rail between Mat-Su and Anchorage. (full story)
July 12 - Environmental groups join up to
fight Knik Arm Crossing
By ANNIE
FEIDT, APRN - ANCHORAGE, AK
A
coalition of seven environmental groups is fighting the Knik Arm Bridge proposal
with an alternative plan. The group is promoting their proposal as a more
cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to relieve congestion and reduce
commute times. They'll present the plan at meetings this week in Wasilla and
Anchorage.
(listen to report)
July 12 -
Alaska residents discuss possible Knik Arm bridge
by DAN FIORUCCI, KTUU
Anchorage, Alaska
The last in a series of
scoping hearings for the proposed Knik Arm bridge got underway in Wasilla
tonight. The controversial $600 million bridge would provide a short
connection between Anchorage and the
Mat-Su Valley.
But not everyone thinks the bridge is a good idea.
(full story)
July 6 - Lease Sale
Put Off
June 18 - Mixing
zones' don't mix with salmon
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