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Nov 22, 2011
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State Refuses to Protect Waters Needed to Support Salmon
Foot-dragging by the Parnell Administration has forced Alaskan citizen
groups to challenge the State’s refusal to protect the waters that support wild Alaskan salmon.
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Nov 16, 2011
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Organizational restructuring will result in more effective, efficient operations
The community-based nonprofit organization Cook Inletkeeper announces a new Executive Director to lead the group through a restructuring effort that will make it more effective and efficient at protecting water quality and wild salmon throughout the Cook Inlet watershed.
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Oct 06, 2011
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Provides Governor Parnell with strong basis to keep his promise to Alaskans to “never trade one resource for another.”
A new analysis of the potential economic costs and benefits of the Chuitna Coal Strip Mine in Upper Cook Inlet finds that economic and environmental damages to fisheries, ecosystems, air, climate and water quality could be over six times greater than the economic benefits that may flow from the sale of coal to Asian markets.
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Dec 01, 2009
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Proposal Relies on Science Over Politics to Protect 3,000 Square Miles as Critical Habitat for Endangered White Whale
The federal National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) today took an important step toward protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska by proposing to designate more than 3,000 square miles of the imperiled whale’s habitat for protection. The overdue proposal comes after a 2007 petition by various local and national groups to NMFS to list the beluga under the ESA, and on the heels of a formal notice of intent to sue by the Center for Biological Diversity.
