Inletkeeper Blog
What the #@*% is 404 State Primacy
Wetland permits are critical to large mining and other industrial operations. The Dunleavy Administration, DEC, and mine promoters want to control wetland permitting to streamline the industrialization of areas like the Bristol Bay watershed. Unable to prevail...
HEA & Dwindling Cook Inlet Natural Gas
Cook Inlet natural gas – the fuel for roughly 85% of our region's electricity – could fall short by 2027, according to a report released in January by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. Previous DNR gas supply studies have estimated that prices would need to...
Trust Your Gut, and Stand Up!
Ḵaax̲gal.aat ("person who packs for themselves") is the Tlingit name for Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, who is now known as an Alaska Native social justice warrior, but in 1945, she was an extremely marginalized Alaska Native woman in a very hostile environment. She...
Your Efforts for Bristol Bay have Paid off!
The EPA’s decision this week to veto the Pebble Mine and issue Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay is a victory for Alaskans and the Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet ecosystems! In all the ways you showed up: at rallies, signing petitions and postcards, with dollars...
Questioning the Value of the Donlin Gold Mine
As we wait with anticipation for the EPA’s 404(c) Final Determination on Pebble mine later this month, Inletkeeper continues to ask questions about the Donlin Gold mine. The Donlin Gold mine would be a massive open-pit complex next to the Kuskokwim River in southwest...
Climate Action for Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu
Nowhere is the disconnect between energy policy and climate impacts more evident than in Cook Inlet. In the same waters covered in last month’s federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258, federal fisheries managers closed the highly-lucrative Pacific cod fishery in...
Giving Our Thanks
Cook Inletkeeper runs on your support, yes, your support. You help keep the lights on and the building warm; you help us keep an eye on developments in our state, region, and communities. We help keep our community keen with real stories, real science, and real...
Alaska Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258 Confirms Lack of Industry Interest; Alaskans Call for the Administration to Remove Cook Inlet From Future Sales
After canceling the sale in May of 2022, the Biden Administration moved forward with leasing Alaska’s Lower Cook Inlet—resulting in only 1 bid on 1 block out of 193. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 30, 2022 Press Contact: Grace Nolan, grace@team-arc.com; Sue Mauger,...
Cook Inlet is Worth It!
This has been a frustrating year! Yet another Pebble mine comment period. Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet is happening tomorrow despite being canceled in May. The Cook Inlet beluga whale population is not improving. Our carbon emissions continue to go...
We are Grateful
For December, we wanted to do something a bit different amidst the hustle and bustle that has become a hallmark of the holiday season. Enduring serial years of the pandemic and political setbacks in a time when we need immediate climate action has taken a toll on our...