by Bridget Maryott | Apr 20, 2023 | AK LNG, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Salmon
The Biden administration just approved exports from the Alaska LNG project, another carbon bomb that will lock us into 30 more years of planet-warming emissions. This massive $38 billion project involves building an 800-mile natural gas pipeline from the North Slope...
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...
