by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 13, 2021 | Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
In the last brutal days of the Trump Administration, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) threw a desperate lifeline to the oil and gas industry. On January 13, BOEM released a rushed and haphazard draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to pave the...
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 8, 2020 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
Forty-five years ago a group of Alaskans with a passion for Cook Inlet took on the oil and gas industry. And in a remarkable David and Goliath battle, they prevailed. Thanks to this small but dogged group of fishermen, scientists, artists and activists, the epic view...
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,...
