by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 2, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
TAKE ACTION NOW: https://inletkeeper.org/hilcorpdumping/ CHECK OUT OUR SHORT VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5Fqlfbubs In today’s increasingly greedy world, oil and gas companies will go to just about any length to make as much profit as possible. And Texas-based...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
Government bureaucrats love to highlight Alaska’s work protecting our environment, because it helps sell the idea that Alaska’s “open for business.” The big mining, oil and gas corporations also like to tout Alaska’s green bona fides, because it helps insulate them...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 12, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
When Pebble’s draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) came out last year, it was widely panned as a superficial nothing burger, designed simply to push the project to the next stage of the process. How bad was it? So bad that agencies reporting to Donald...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 31, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
Barack Obama’s chief of staff Rahm Emmanuel once famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.” Emmanuel must have had a crystal ball to channel...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 19, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Government, Local Economies, Salmon
Today, Cook Inletkeeper joined four Native Tribes in a legal challenge to the Dunleavy Administration’s decision to let Donlin Gold build a 315 mile-long gas pipeline across hundreds of fish streams from Cook Inlet to Donlin’s mine site next to the Kuskokwim River. ...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 17, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
The Iditarod is truly the Last Great Race. But it has also struggled for funding in recent years, and in 2016, it capitulated to major sponsors – including Donlin Gold – to install a “gag rule,” which prohibits mushers from criticizing race...
