by Ben Boettger | Oct 19, 2026 | Cook Inlet
Twice in two weeks, President Donald Trump and Alaskan elected officials have spun ecstatic claims of triumph for AK LNG from tentative and nonbinding commitments that Asian allies have made under the economic threat of tariffs. This isn’t only a story about powerful...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Oct 19, 2026 | Cook Inlet, Donlin Gold Mine, Mining
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ new Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed Donlin Gold Mine confirms what people on the Kuskokwim have warned about for years: a major tailings dam failure is possible and would be catastrophic. The...
by Aaron Ford | Oct 18, 2026 | Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Data Centers
A Delaware-registered company called DeepGreen has filed an initial permit application to study a hyperscale underwater data center in the Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu forelands region, a geographical bottleneck near Nikiski. Applying for this federal permit allows DeepGreen...
by Aaron Ford | Oct 14, 2026 | Belugas, Cook Inlet, Data Centers, Energy & Alaska, Salmon
An underwater data center is being proposed in the waters of Tikahtnu | Cook Inlet in the Forelands region near Nikiski. The proposal comes from a newly registered company called DeepGreen, based in Delaware. Until November 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...
by Aaron Ford | Sep 17, 2026 | Community, Cook Inlet, Healthy Habitat
On August 23rd, a California-based engineering company called Rainmaker conducted an experiment over the lower Kenai Peninsula to test the effectiveness of its cloud-seeding technology. They flew several drones that released about 375g of silver iodide via flares...
by Ben Boettger | Sep 17, 2026 | Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Data Centers, Renewable Energy, Salmon
A company called DeepGreen Cook Inlet is seeking a federal permit to install a tidally powered data center in the Forelands region near Nikiski. Until November 2, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will accept public comments on the data center proposal....
