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...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 19, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
In 1984, a cyanide gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people in what’s been called the world’s worst industrial disaster. Less than a year after the Bhopal disaster, a Union Carbide plant in Institute, West...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 4, 2020 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
On January 28, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) announced it had been overestimating the number of endangered beluga whales for years in Cook Inlet, and said the “population is estimated to be smaller and declining more quickly than previously thought.”...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 23, 2020 | Arts, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Events, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Uncategorized
Kohtr’elneyh • Remembering Forward • Alaska’s Just Transition Summit, January 8 – 10, 2020 • Fairbanks Kohtr’elneyh (We Remember) is the Lower Tanana language of the Benhti’ Kenaga https://www.justtransitionak.org/ So what is a Just...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 27, 2019 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat
Local businesses, voters and property owners around Lower Cook Inlet responded recently to the Dunleavy Administration’s abrupt decision last week to unravel safeguards to Kachemak Bay. On November 19, ADFG staff notified its planning team the “governor’s office...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 22, 2019 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Uncategorized
2014 fire on Hilcorps’ Baker Platform in Cook Inlet The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has extended public comment on proposals to transfer BP pipelines and other assets – including BP’s interests in the Trans Alaska Pipeline (TAPs) to Hilcorps. The new...