by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
Government bureaucrats love to highlight Alaska’s work protecting our environment, because it helps sell the idea that Alaska’s “open for business.” The big mining, oil and gas corporations also like to tout Alaska’s green bona fides, because it helps insulate them...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 12, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
When Pebble’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) came out last year, it was widely panned as a superficial nothing burger, designed simply to push the project to the next stage of the process. How bad was it? So bad that agencies reporting to Donald...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 29, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
When it comes to development projects like the Pebble mine, our state agencies in Alaska are supposed to be neutral arbiters. They can call balls and strikes, and but they’re not supposed to hit home runs for one side or another. But a recent letter from the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 6, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Alaskans fighting the Pebble mine have largely focused their ire on Senator Lisa Murkowski, because she’s the more moderate politician and someone who might actually do something. Dan Sullivan, on the other hand, has largely escaped scrutiny, because Alaskans...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 11, 2019 | Bears, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Pebble Mine, Brown Bears & the Climate Crisis For the past year, Inletkeeper has been studying the brown bears in Lower Cook Inlet, to understand the potential impacts on bears and the bear viewing industry from the proposed transportation corridor and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 14, 2019 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
New study shows bear viewing industry supports nearly 500 jobs and more than $34 million in sales annually See Report Summary here & Full Report here. We’re getting tired talking about what a stupid idea it is to put a giant, toxic hole in the headwaters of the...
