Inletkeeper Blog
The War on Alaska Salmon: Conflicts of Interest & Corporate Influence Infect Wild Salmon Protection
Your right as an Alaskan to wild, healthy salmon is under assault. These are strong words, and we don’t take them lightly. But the fact remains that large corporations are now woven into the very fabric of our government and our society, and their corporate DNA is...
What the Frack?! State Protects Oil Corporations, Hides Fracking Info from Alaskans
Did you ever get slapped for doing the right thing? That’s how Cook Inletkeeper feels after the Alaska Oil & Gas Commission (AOGCC) recently announced its final rule on whether Alaskans should get public notice and an opportunity to comment on hydraulic fracking...
The Corporate War on Salmon: Part 2
Recent filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission reveal the many corporations and trade groups opposed to the Stand for Salmon Initiative, which is the ballot measure sponsored by Alaskans to update our 60-year old fish habitat laws. No one should be surprised...
Alaska’s Corporate War on Salmon
These Corporations Have Rigged the Salmon Protection System By Bob Shavelson, Advocacy Director I’ve been working on water quality and salmon habitat issues in Alaska for over 20 years. And over all this time, I’ve learned a few painful but obvious lessons. First,...
Sharing Stories and Building Trust
The Mat-Su Basin Salmon Habitat Partnership held its 10th annual Salmon Science and Conservation Symposium this month in Palmer. Cook Inletkeeper's Science Director had the honor of offering welcoming remarks to the crowd of salmon enthusiasts from local government,...
The largest corporations on the planet are attacking your right to clean water
Why is a women’s group attacking clean water safeguards?The answer tells a larger story about how massive corporations have bought our government and our politicians. And it’s on prominent display in the Last Frontier. In 2015, the Obama Administration adopted a...
New Leases in Heart of Cook Inlet Mark Dangerous Turning Point
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION June 21, 2017 Bob Shavelson (907.299.3277) ANCHORAGE—Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a lease sale for tracts in the federal waters of Lower Cook Inlet. Unlike the previous three sales, Lease Sale 244...
Tracking Thermal Stress in Salmon Streams
Our paper: "Summer temperature regimes in southcentral Alaska streams: watershed drivers of variation and potential implications for Pacific salmon" has just come out in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. We posed some specific questions: Which...
On the Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez, Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Shows Continued Complacency
March 24 marks 28 years since the Exxon Valdez “fetched up, ah, hard aground” on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, laying a path of destruction across Alaska’s coastal ecosystems and the countless lives they support. While Exxon officials worked hard to convince the...
Give Alaska Salmon a Brake!
Fall is my favorite time to bicycle commute through Anchorage. I like to watch the birch trees turn from their summer shades of green, to the yellow of autumn, and ultimately to their final resting place on the bike path where they crunch under my tires. I also like...