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...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 16, 2019 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, Americans joined together to secure some of the best air, land and water protections in the world. Then the pendulum started to swing back, with billions of dollars from corporations, think tanks and phony “astroturf” groups pushing an...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 15, 2019 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
Hilcorp’s seismic air gun blasting program started in full force this past weekend, with the seismic vessel Polarcus Alima running transects across some of the most important fish and whale habitat in Lower Cook Inlet. You can get an update on Hilcorp’s daily...
