by Sue Mauger | Mar 16, 2023 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
A Hilcorp contractor – SAExploration Seismic Services – is seeking a Miscellaneous Land Use Permit from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to conduct a seismic survey this spring. To conduct the survey, SAE will detonate explosive shocks at 55-feet...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Mar 14, 2023 | Climate Change, Events, Homer Electric Association
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 School. A...
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 Sue Mauger | Jan 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258
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...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 21, 2022 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Community, Press Releases
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...
by Ben Boettger | Dec 7, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Homer Electric Association
The energy prospects on the horizon in December 2022 are very different from those of December 2021, and in December 2023, the picture is likely to be different once again. With action and engagement, we can make it a much brighter one. Mitigating the destruction...
