by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
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...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 12, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
When Pebble’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) came out last year, it was widely panned as a superficial nothing burger, designed simply to push the project to the next stage of the process. How bad was it? So bad that agencies reporting to Donald...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 29, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
When it comes to development projects like the Pebble mine, our state agencies in Alaska are supposed to be neutral arbiters. They can call balls and strikes, and but they’re not supposed to hit home runs for one side or another. But a recent letter from the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 6, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Alaskans fighting the Pebble mine have largely focused their ire on Senator Lisa Murkowski, because she’s the more moderate politician and someone who might actually do something. Dan Sullivan, on the other hand, has largely escaped scrutiny, because Alaskans...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 31, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel once famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.” Emmanuel must have had a crystal ball to channel...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 19, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce,...
