by Ben Boettger | Sep 16, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
80% of Southcentral Alaska’s electricity is generated by natural gas turbines, and about a third of our electric bills go to fueling them. All this gas is extracted from beneath or around Cook Inlet, and for decades this local market has grown increasingly...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 31, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Since our last update, the Inflation Reduction Act passed, bringing with it a mandate to hold Lease Sale 258 in the federal waters of Lower Cook Inlet before the end of 2022. Although we can’t stop this unpopular sale from moving forward, Inletkeeper and partners will...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 3, 2022 | Climate Change, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Cook Inletkeeper has been fighting alongside our supporters for our collective vision of Cook Inlet for the last 27 years. This vision has focused on clean water, healthy salmon, and strong communities. One central theme of this fight has been limiting oil and gas...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 14, 2022 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Healthy Habitat
By Chandler Spoon, Inletkeeper Legal Intern At Colorado Law, environmental law and American Indian law are inextricably linked. I left my classical music career solely to study the former but quickly became immersed in the latter asking how can so much of our modern...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 9, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
If you are like me, you feel like we just celebrated Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet being taken off the table. Unfortunately, as many of you are only too familiar with, we are again facing a proposed lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet. President Biden and the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 23, 2022 | Arts, Climate Change
*The following is not financial advice. We are providing information as part of our own journey to understand this technology and where it fits into our commitment to climate, our communities, and art as advocacy. Inletkeeper has been selected to receive a portion of...
