by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 25, 2020 | Bears, Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon, Uncategorized
On the day before Thanksgiving, Alaskans woke to astounding news: the Army Corps rejected a major permit for the Pebble mine. Never before had the Army Corps rejected a major permit for a large oil, gas or mining project in Alaska. Never. And it only came about after...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 18, 2020 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
When I was young and my mom thought I was running with the wrong crowd, she had a simple admonition: if you lay down in the gutter, you get up dirty. That was long ago. But today, when I look at our industry “partners” in Alaska, it feels like we’re wallowing in the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 29, 2020 | Bears, Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
Today another public relations bombshell tore into the Pebble Partnership, with the release of new tapes by the Environmental Investigation Agency showing Northern Dynasty’s Ron Thiessen bragging about the company’s political influence over Alaska Senators Dan...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 2, 2020 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
In late September, the “Pebble Tapes” dropped like a bomb on the Pebble Partnership, blasting public relations shrapnel through the Canadian corporation that will draw blood for a long time. As Pebble staggers through the smoke and fog of the Pebble Tape’s fallout,...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 28, 2020 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Talk is cheap, but numbers don’t lie. Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) – the junior Candian mining interest behind the proposed Pebble mine – did its damndest to hype its stock in the lead-up to the much-anticipated release of its Environmental Impact...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 26, 2020 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Uncategorized
Alaska’s land, water and communities are facing a climate crisis, and we all know the problem. Surface air temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate of average global warming. A hotter, more arid atmosphere is melting the state’s iconic glaciers at a...
