June 8 – Alaska Environmental Enforcement Report!

Media, Data & Other Information for “Cops Off the Beat: Environmental Enforcement Problems Under the Murkowski Administration”

Press Release

“Cops Off the Beat” Report

Joint Letter to the Governor

Appendix A: ADEC Enforcement Database – 12/1/02-1/15/04

Appendix B: ADEC Spill Report Database – 12/1/02-1/15/04

Update on Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Pipeline Report

Press Release

Pipeline Report Update: Summary of Findings

Previous Pipeline Study

Media and other information on 

Unocal Clean Water Act violations 

in Cook Inlet

Press Release

Comments from conservation groups to EPA regarding Unocal Clean Water Act Violations

Notice Letter

Alleged Violations

Oil Industry Dumps 1.67 Million Pounds of Toxic Pollution Into Cook Inlet Air, Water, Land  

GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL TO ROLL BACK FISH PROTECTIONS
Executive, Legislative Branches Cave to Oil, Military; Deal One-Two Punch to Coastal Protection

(HOMER, AK) - Today the public interest groups Cook Inlet Keeper and Alaska Community Action on Toxics flatly condemned the enactment by Governor Tony Knowles of special interest legislation (S.B. 371) which will undermine important Alaska laws designed to protect Alaskans and their fisheries from toxic pollution.
"The Governor was so embarrassed by signing this bill he waited until late Friday afternoon to announce it," said Cook Inlet Keeper Bob Shavelson. "And he should be ashamed: despite his seat on the esteemed Pew Oceans Commission, this bill deals a one-two punch to fisheries and coastal resource protection throughout the State." More...

  Press Release 1     Press Release 2    

Unocal Hoping to Expand Kenai Refuge Drilling under Bush Energy Plan

The mutilinational oil and gas corporation Unocal has submitted plans to expand drilling operations in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Southcentral Alaska. For more information, see:

*Keeper Press Release

*U.S. Fish & Willdife Service's Contaminants Assessment (showing the effects of oil and gas development on Kenai Refuge resources) http://www.defenders.org/habitat/refuges/kenai/)

* The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed expansion: http://alaska.fws.gov/refuges.cfm

Issue Alerts: Keeper has teamed up with the Alaska Center for the Environment to form the Alaska Action Network.  You can sign up to receive emailed ActionAlerts concerning imminent issues.  An ActionAlert contains a message you can edit and send to decision makers.  When you edit and send the message from the web to a decision maker, it arrives as either an email or a FAX, depending on the issue.

We continue to monitor the road failure above Karen Hornaday Park sloughing into Woodard Creek.

Read Keeper's comments to the Cook Inlet Areawide Lease Sale Call For New Information.

 Keeper Website Highlights 

You can now search the Citizen's Water Quality Monitoring Database and view data by site!  Or download an excel file of the database.

At the Lower Kenai Watershed Health Project , maps, photos and descriptions illustrate Keeper's professional-level water quality monitoring efforts in the watersheds of four salmon streams on the Kenai Peninsula in South Central Alaska.

The monitoring page has useful links to our Citizen's water quality training materials such as our EPA and Alaska DEC approved Quality Assurance Project Plan and Citizen's Training Manual (including water quality test methods).  Maps show the locations of the Citizen's Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) sites- where citizens who have taken our training, monitor water quality. A monitor training schedule has been added.

The Maps page has links to maps of the Cook Inlet, Alaska watershed, Kachemak Bay area Citizen's water Quality monitoring sites and oil and gas development there (including conflicts with Beluga whale habitat, and the Federal MMS 2002-2007 planning area); Kenai Peninsula, Alaska bark beetle outbreak and logging, as well as a topographic map of Homer, Alaska's drinking water supply, the Bridge Creek watershed.  Interactive maps allow you to see contaminated sites in your area.

  The mapping page also has a link to order a Cook Inlet GIS atlas- a user friendly computer mapping viewer with 125 map layers of information about Cook Inlet resources and human use.  If you already have a CD and need the screen fix click here (see the mapping page for more information).

A link to a Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation contaminated sites database allows viewers to look at maps of Anchorage, Mat-Su Valley, Soldotna, Nikiski, Cook Inlet offshore Oil and Gas and Homer, then search the database to find out specifics about spills.   More areas are coming soon.

The about Cook Inlet Watershed page has WOW facts and maps about the Cook Inlet watershed; and photos of Alaskan wildlife.

The About Cook Inlet Keeper page provide a history of keeping and how Cook Inlet Keeper began.  It also has links to staff, programs and accomplishments and Board of Directors.

At Support Keeper you can fill out a membership form to join the organization, or order a Keeper Sedna T-shirt or a Cook Inlet GIS atlas on CD ROM.

The Watershed Network page offers links to other Cook Inlet, Alaska groups working to protect our quality of life, and a link to our more comprehensive Watershed Directory: a resource listing agencies, schools, non-profits, native organizations and individuals that work with Cook Inlet resource issues.

The Take Action! page provides a link to the ActionNetwork, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund.  This network allows you to sign up to receive email alerts about important issues.  You can edit the alert and reply; the reply then gets sent as a FAX to decision-makers.