Inletkeeper Blog
Biden’s Climate Plan A Good Start for Alaska
Alaska’s land, water and communities are facing a climate crisis, and we all know the problem. Surface air temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate of average global warming. A hotter, more arid atmosphere is melting the state’s iconic glaciers at a...
Pebble Mine is Buying Permits Under the Trump Administration
Massive spending on lobbyists gives foreign mining interests unfair advantage over everyday Alaskans A new compilation by Cook Inletkeeper from U.S. Senate Lobbying Reports shows the Canadian mining interests behind the proposed Pebble mine have spent more than $15...
Mike Dunleavy Doesn’t Know Alaskan Values
Mike Dunleavy recently flew all the way to the east coast to stand by Donald Trump as he gutted rules under the nation’s “environmental magna carta” – the National Environmental Policy Act. Of course Mike Dunleavy has contorted himself in any number of ways to coddle...
Chinook salmon declines related to changes in freshwater conditions
A new study – led by University of Alaska researchers and in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper – provides the first evidence that declines in many of Alaska’s Chinook salmon populations can be attributed in part to climate-driven changes in their freshwater habitats.
Increasing Pollution May Push Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Towards Extinction
There is an enduring struggle in Cook Inlet to maintain a balance between developing oil and natural gas resources while also protecting the watershed’s rich biodiversity and thriving tourism and fishing industries. To date, the scale has tipped in favor of...
Pebble Redux: The Bears of Amakdedori | Full Film Now Online
https://vimeo.com/429430449 There are few icons of wilderness as powerful as the bears of southwest Alaska. With thousands of them living wild on the Alaska Peninsula, they play crucial roles as ecosystem curators and economic drivers, drawing wildlife lovers from all...
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...