Victory — Ruling in favor of environmental groups highlights concerns about endangered whales ANCHORAGE, AK — National and community-based environmental groups celebrated a legal victory on Tuesday, when a federal district court judge overturned an offshore oil-and-gas lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet because the federal government violated the...
From Montana to Alaska:Embracing Climate Change Through Art— Bonnie Dana For each of us, climate change has – or soon will – influence our lives regardless of where we live or what we enjoy. As someone born and raised in Bozeman, Montana, where summers consist of fly-fishing, backpacking, and catching frogs, to winters of cross-country and...
Keep the Net Metering Program Running — Josie Oliva  Net metering is under fire in the Homer Electric Association (HEA) boardroom. The HEA Net Metering Program is open to all retail members. It provides an opportunity for members to install and use certain types of renewable generation, like home solar, to offset monthly electric usage and sell...
Donlin Equals Disaster — Quentin Simeon Donlin Gold is more than just a mine, it is a disaster waiting to happen… If completed, the Donlin project would be the largest open-pit gold mine on Earth, located in one of the more remote places in the world. The 25-square-mile open pit mine will need the infrastructure of a small city to support its...
It is estimated that Cook Inlet contains about a third of the potential tidal energy of the United States, a resource that could provide roughly 15 times the entire Railbelt's annual electricity consumption. It’s never been a secret that tides in the Forelands region – the 10-mile bottleneck where Cook Inlet squeezes between the Kenai and...
Homer Electric Association’s Board of Directors election wrapped up on May 2nd at the Annual Meeting of the Members. The Board remains unchanged as all three incumbents were reelected. The pro-renewable minority retains three seats, with the other six directors ranging from renewable skeptics to unyielding opponents. Inletkeeper endorsed...
As Inletkeeper hustles to organize the many, many logistics required to move electronics off the Peninsula and up to Central Recycling Services in Anchorage, we consider more deeply what it would take to create a true circular economy for our electronics consumption. To meaningfully reduce the waste stream and mitigate its impact, there are...
Households could see electric bills rise as much as $265 per year HOMER, AK — Alarm bells will be ringing for Southcentral Alaska if Donlin Mine pursues Cook Inlet natural gas to fuel its proposed massive gold mining operation in Western Alaska, with detrimental consequences for Alaskans’ utility bills. Cook Inletkeeper has just released an...
As the global climate crisis intensifies, its impact beyond ecological concerns is increasingly evident. Climate change affects us all, but it disproportionately affects vulnerable communities, including the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Environmental justice recognizes that marginalized communities often bear the disproportionate brunt of its...
The Biden administration just approved exports from the Alaska LNG project, another carbon bomb that will lock us into 30 more years of planet-warming emissions. This massive $38 billion project involves building an 800-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to an export terminal in Nikiski. The project will emit 2.7 billion metric tons...
