Inletkeeper Blog
Who is in the Room?
Youth Voices are Integral in Creating a Just Transition to a Regenerative and Fossil Fuel Free Economy in Alaska by Satchel Pondolfino When you walk into a decision-making space, take note of who is in the room. The decisions that come out of that room are going to...
Alaska Leads the Nation in Toxic Releases for a Good Reason: Large Mines Like Pebble Are Toxic
In 1984, a cyanide gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people in what’s been called the world’s worst industrial disaster. Less than a year after the Bhopal disaster, a Union Carbide plant in Institute, West...
Art as Strategy: Envisioning a Just Transition
This is the second piece in a series of Inletkeeper's staff reflections from their experience at the Alaska’s first-ever Just Transition Summit Alaska’s Just Transition is about getting from where we’re at to where we want to be. We’re in a single revenue source,...
NMFS Bureaucrats Drive Beluga Whale to Edge of Extinction
On January 28, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) announced it had been overestimating the number of endangered beluga whales for years in Cook Inlet, and said the “population is estimated to be smaller and declining more quickly than previously thought.”...
Alaskans Thank Goldman Sachs for Move Away from Fossil Fuels in the Arctic
UPDATE - FEBRUARY 3, 2020. Today, Goldman Sachs responded to the letter (see below) from over 550 Alaskans applauding its decision to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the Arctic. In a short letter, Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO David Solomon wrote "climate...
Transition is Inevitable, Justice is Not
Kohtr'elneyh • Remembering Forward • Alaska's Just Transition Summit, January 8 - 10, 2020 • Fairbanks Kohtr'elneyh (We Remember) is the Lower Tanana language of the Benhti' Kenaga https://www.justtransitionak.org/ So what is a Just Transition? Just Transition...
Gov. Dunleavy is failing Alaska
December 30, 2019 Bob Shavelson The revelation that Gov. Mike Dunleavy parroted corporate talking points in his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to open the Pebble Mine should concern every Alaskan who cares about wild salmon and strong local economies. And...
Letter from the Director
As we approach solstice anticipating the returning light, I’ve been laughing about the notion that this is the slow time of year. The to-do list here at Cook Inletkeeper is longer than ever - there is no off-season to protecting what we love. This month we are...
Oops, He Did It Again! Dunleavy Stiffs Alaskans.
It’s safe to say Mike Dunleavy is the least popular governor in state history, and for good reason. He ran for office on a wave of dark money, with the phony promise every Alaskan would get a $6,700 PFD check. Then he locked arms with the billionaire Koch Brothers and...
Public Comment Due Dec. 13: Alaska’s Biggest Business Deal of the 21st Century
2014 fire on Hilcorps' Baker Platform in Cook Inlet The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has extended public comment on proposals to transfer BP pipelines and other assets – including BP’s interests in the Trans Alaska Pipeline (TAPs) to Hilcorps. The new deadline is...