by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 2, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Desperate times call for desperate measures. What else could explain the choice of Randy Bates – former ADFG Habitat Division Director – as a prominent spokesman in folksy TV and video ads for the corporate campaign against Alaska salmon? Inletkeeper had a front...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 11, 2018 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Salmon
It’s no secret the corporate campaign against the Stand for Salmon ballot initiative has amassed more than $10 million to try to stop Alaskans from updating our 60-year-old, one-sentence-long salmon habitat law. But there’s a darker effort unfolding behind the scenes,...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 4, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In the lead-up to the long holiday weekend, when Alaskans were distracted with camping and hunting and fishing plans, the Walker Administration quietly issued two decisions which show exactly why we need to pass the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1 to take politics...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 14, 2018 | Clean Water, Salmon
Every once in a while the truth slips out. Yesterday Kurt Parkan, a mouthpiece for the giant Donlin Gold Mine, laid bare the myth of rigorous permitting in Alaska. “Projects go into the process of getting a permit with the expectation of getting a permit,” Parkan...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 8, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
Today, the Alaska Supreme Court struck an important provision from the Stand for Salmon Ballot Initiative. It ruled the initiative’s ban on “substantial damage” – including permanent harm to salmon habitat – violated the Alaska Constitution because it amounted to an...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 6, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
re·dux: /rēˈdəks,ˈrēˈdəks/adjective, brought back; revived. Late last year one of Cook Inletkeeper’s keen-eyed Boardmembers sent me an obscure public notice for exploration work around Amakdedori Creek in Kamishak Bay on the west side of Lower Cook Inlet. The project...
