Inletkeeper Blog
The Pebble Partnership: Still Tone Deaf After All these Years
First impressions are often telling. Inletkeeper first met with Northern Dynasty in Homer in 2005, before the Candian junior mining interest - which had never before developed a mining project - formed the Pebble Limited Partnership. The meeting was cordial but...
Trump EPA Loses Major Clean Water Act Case on Toxic Oil Spill Dispersants
On June 2, 2020, a federal court ruled the Trump EPA must revise rules governing the Clean Water Act's National Contingency Plan - which covers oil spill prevention and response in Alaska and across the United States. Inletkeeper joined Alaska Natives and other...
Hilcorp Wants to Increase Toxic Dumping in Cook Inlet. And ADEC is happy to help.
TAKE ACTION NOW: https://inletkeeper.org/hilcorpdumping/ CHECK OUT OUR SHORT VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5Fqlfbubs In today’s increasingly greedy world, oil and gas companies will go to just about any length to make as much profit as possible. And Texas-based...
Dunleavy Administration Admits it Rubber-Stamped Highly Flawed Permit for Donlin Mine
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...
Agency Experts: Pebble Review Still Fails the Test
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...
Feige Shows State Bias in Pebble Letter to Corps
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...
Dan Sullivan Needs to Tell the Army Corps: Support Alaskans, Not Pebble
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...
Trump Hides Behind Virus to Ramp-Up Shameless Assault on Alaskan Waters
Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel once famously said, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you could not do before." Emmanuel must have had a crystal ball to channel the Trump Administration...
Just Transition, Alaska Native Food Sovereignty: Resiliency in Action
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce,...
Inletkeeper Joins Alaska Natives in Lawsuit Over Donlin Pipeline
Today, Cook Inletkeeper joined four Native Tribes in a legal challenge to the Dunleavy Administration’s decision to let Donlin Gold build a 315 mile-long gas pipeline across hundreds of fish streams from Cook Inlet to Donlin’s mine site next to the Kuskokwim River. ...