by Ben Boettger | Apr 25, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
Vote online in the HEA election here, or send your mail-in ballot by May 4. We can’t predict what energy system we’ll have in 2030, but it won’t be the one we have today.Since the 1960s, the majority of our electricity has been fueled by Cook Inlet natural gas. In...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Mar 14, 2023 | Civics, Climate Change, Community, Events, Government
In April Inletkeeper will be supporting three pro-renewable energy candidates for the Homer Electric Association Board of Directors. In District 1 (Kenai-Nikiski), candidate Rob Ernst is a commercial fisherman and teacher recently retired from Nikiski High...
by Bridget Maryott | Mar 14, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
Wetland permits are critical to large mining and other industrial operations. The Dunleavy Administration, DEC, and mine promoters want to control wetland permitting to streamline the industrialization of areas like the Bristol Bay watershed. Unable to prevail...
by Ben Boettger | Feb 17, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies
Cook Inlet natural gas – the fuel for roughly 85% of our region’s electricity – could fall short by 2027, according to a report released in January by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. Previous DNR gas supply studies have estimated that prices would...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 16, 2023 | Civics, Community
Ḵaax̲gal.aat (“person who packs for themselves”) is the Tlingit name for Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, who is now known as an Alaska Native social justice warrior, but in 1945, she was an extremely marginalized Alaska Native woman in a very hostile...
by Sue Mauger | Jan 19, 2023 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Energy & Alaska, Events, Salmon
Nowhere is the disconnect between energy policy and climate impacts more evident than in Cook Inlet. In the same waters covered in last month’s federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258, federal fisheries managers closed the highly-lucrative Pacific cod fishery in...
