by Bridget Maryott | Jun 28, 2024 | blogs, Clean Water, Donlin Gold Mine, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Homer Electric Association, Local Economies, Mining, Pebble Mine
Donlin Equals Disaster — Quentin Simeon Donlin Gold is more than just a mine, it is a disaster waiting to happen… If completed, the Donlin project would be the largest open-pit gold mine on Earth, located in one of the more remote places in the world. The...
by Bridget Maryott | May 28, 2024 | blogs, Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Mining
As Inletkeeper hustles to organize the many, many logistics required to move electronics off the Peninsula and up to Central Recycling Services in Anchorage, we consider more deeply what it would take to create a true circular economy for our electronics consumption....
by Sue Mauger | Feb 26, 2024 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has released the Public Review Draft of the Susitna Basin Recreation Rivers Management Plan for public review and comment. Following the public review period, DNR intends to adopt the plan with any changes that may...
by Ben Boettger | Dec 21, 2023 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Homer Electric Association, Local Economies
Homer Electric Association’s directors have abandoned the co-op’s goal of becoming 50% renewable by 2025. At their Dec. 12 meeting, board members voted 6-3 to rescind the renewable goal and subsequently approved a new policy for HEA to “to encourage...
by David Knight | Dec 12, 2023 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
As the first rays of sunlight pierced through the misty morning haze, anticipation coursed through my veins. You are not supposed to watch your rod tip, waiting for it to bow to the secrets that lie beneath the glacier-fed waters (a watched kettle never boils), and...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Dec 7, 2023 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In service to the Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu watershed and the living communities it supports, Inletkeeper is unwavering in our commitment to serving as both hardrock mining watchdogs and renewable energy advocates. Despite the prevailing rhetoric driven by the mining...
