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Biden Administration Alaska Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Confirms Lack of Industry Interest; Alaskans Call for the Administration to Remove Cook Inlet From Future Sales

By | December 30, 2022

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, sue@inletkeeper.org (Anchorage, Alaska) – Today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held […]

Groups Sue to Stop Biden Administration from Leasing Cook Inlet, Alaska for Oil and Gas Drilling

By | December 21, 2022

Groups cite Department of Interior’s failure to meaningfully consider climate impacts of auctioning off close to a million acres FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 21, 2022 MEDIA CONTACTSBecca Bowe, Earthjustice (Pacific time), rbowe@earthjustice.org Jackson Chiappinelli, Earthjustice (Eastern time), (585) 402-2005, jchiappinelli@earthjustice.org  Anne Hawke, NRDC, (646) 823-4518 ahawke@nrdc.org Sue Mauger, Cook Inletkeeper, (907) 399-2070, sue@inletkeeper.org  Penelope Haas, […]

Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 is a False Solution to High Gas Prices and Sacrifices Cook Inlet Communities

By | September 22, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 22, 2022 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Sue Mauger, 907.399.2070, sue@inletkeeper.org Taylor Kendal Smith, 907.802.0534, taylor@inletkeeper.org Ben Boettger, 603.306.1352, ben@inletkeeper.org HOMER, Alaska — Today, the Department of the Interior released the Proposed Notice of Sale for Lease Sale 258 in Cook Inlet, Alaska. This is in direct response to the passing of the […]

PROPOSED BILL IN CONGRESS IGNORES ALASKANS, WOULD SACRIFICE COOK INLET

By | July 28, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2022 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Liz Mering, Inletkeeper (907.235.3459)  Marissa Wilson, Executive Director AMCC (907.299.6566)  PROPOSED BILL IN CONGRESS IGNORES ALASKANS, WOULD SACRIFICE COOK INLET 40 years of oil and gas development in undeveloped Lower Cook Inlet puts local economies at risk HOMER, AK – The proposed climate and energy package […]

FEDS IGNORE SERIOUS IMPACTS TO TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, FISHERIES, WILDLIFE & BUSINESSES IN COOK INLET

By | December 15, 2021

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:     December 14, 2021  FOR MORE INFORMATION:     Liz Mering, Inletkeeper (907.235.3459)  FEDS IGNORE SERIOUS IMPACTS TO TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, FISHERIES, WILDLIFE & BUSINESSES IN COOK INLET President Biden promised no more offshore oil leasing, and Alaskans push the administration to use this authority and cancel Lease Sale 258 HOMER, AK […]

ART (NOT Lease) Sale 258

By | December 3, 2021

Friday, 3 December 2021: For Immediate Release Soldotna, AK: Five local artists from the Cook Inlet basin have come together to raise awareness about the federal government’s Lease Sale 258, which would open up over a million acres of Lower Cook Inlet to oil and gas development. The area, from below Kalgin Island down to […]

Growing Sustainable Roots for Alaska’s Farmers Markets, Farm Stands, and CSAs

By | December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Alaska Farmers Market Association awarded a USDA Grant to support farmers markets, farm stands, and Community Support Agriculture Homer, AK- The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $37.5 Million this year to 84 recipients across the country, including funding to Alaska’s Cook Inletkeeper, fiscal sponsor, and incubator […]

ALASKANS CALL FOR STOP TO TOXIC OIL DUMPING IN COOK INLET

By | November 8, 2021

STATE MAKES MOCKERY OF “RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT” BY LETTING OIL INDUSTRY INCREASE TOXIC POLLUTION IN PRIME BELUGA & FISH HABITAT Download the Press Release here HOMER, AK – Today a coalition of groups, filed by Trustees for Alaska, pressed the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) to reconsider a final Clean Water Act permit that allows […]

Lawsuit Challenges Hilcorp’s Plan to Blast Cook Inlet Beluga Whales

By | September 4, 2019

ANCHORAGE— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s approval of rules allowing Hilcorp Alaska LLC to harm Cook Inlet beluga whales and other marine mammals as it expands its offshore oil and gas operations in Cook Inlet. Cook Inletkeeper and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries Service in […]

Salmon Stream Temperatures Off the Charts

By | July 10, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 10, 2019 HEAT WAVE HITS COOK INLET SALMON STREAMSClimate Crisis Sends Stream Temperatures Off the Charts (PDF Version Here) HOMER, AK— As Alaskans suffer through the smoke, haze and danger of a record-breaking heat wave, Alaska’s salmon are suffering too. On July 7th, stream temperatures topped 81.7 oF (27.6 oC) in the Deshka River, […]

House of Representatives Vote to Block Funding for Pebble Mine.

By | June 19, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 19, 2019 House of Representatives Vote to Block Funding for Pebble Mine.Representative Don Young wants to “Look at the Science.” Homer, AK – Today, the House of Representatives passed amendment 90, “The Huffman Amendment” to the Energy and Water Appropriations Act (H.R. 2740) bill to suspend funding for permitting the proposed […]

Update: Pebble Keeps Feeding the Swamp to Push Dead-End Mine

By | May 2, 2019

In May 2019, Inletkeeper released a report (see below) showing the pile of money Pebble is spending on high-end lobbyists to influence the Trump Administration’s so-called “permitting process.” The report showed that since the beginning of the Trump administration, Pebble has paid $4.43 million to in-house and external lobbyists. Since 2007, that number balloons to […]

SALMON EXPERTS URGE ALASKANS TO SUPPORT BALLOT MEASURE 1

By | October 17, 2018

Today Cook Inletkeeper released a statement from 58 retired state and federal agency scientists and managers who strongly support the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1. Taken together, these experts have more than 1500 years’ experience managing and overseeing salmon and salmon habitat In Alaska. “Exxon, Pebble and the other corporations are smothering Alaskans with […]

Walker Administration Rejects Salmon Protections, Weakens Law

By | August 29, 2018

ANCHORAGE— The Alaska Department of Natural Resources bowed to corporate pressure late yesterday evening, after the court ordered deadline, and rejected efforts by Alaskan citizens to protect wild salmon in the Chuitna River watershed on the west side of Cook Inlet. “It’s been 9 years since we filed papers to reserve enough water in Middle […]

Award Winning Mural Artist Celebrates Salmon in Homer

By | August 10, 2018

Partnership Between Community Organizations Connects Art to Advocacy HOMER, August 10th, 2018 – Visiting Artist in Residence, Patrick Maxcy, will be painting a live art mural today, August 10th, for the 3rd Annual Alaska Wild Salmon Day event held between 4:30 – 7:00PM at Karen Hornaday Park Pavillion in Homer. His colorful salmon mural painted […]

New Leases in Heart of Cook Inlet Mark Dangerous Turning Point

By | June 23, 2017

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 garnered bids, though only one company – Hilcorp – participated in the sale. “Lease […]

Sitka Harbor System Certified as Alaska’s 4th Clean Harbor

By | December 7, 2015

SITKA, AK – A year and a half after signing the Alaska Clean Harbors pledge, the ACH Advisory Committee certified the Sitka Harbor System as an Alaska Clean Harbor during their October meeting. The ACH Advisory Committee, the certifying body for the statewide program, includes representatives from Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, Alaska Dept. […]

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