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 | Mar 9, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
Inletkeeper recently reported about Alaska’s unenviable status as the most toxic state in America due to pollution from large metal mines. Today, a new report issued today by Earthworks pulls back the curtain on Alaska’s phony permitting scheme, with key...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 2, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine
It’s curious why any Governor would continually poke a stick into the eye of his constituents, but Mike Dunleavy seems to have a unique penchant for it. In just the past several months, Mike Dunleavy’s apparent distaste for coastal Alaskans has taken a variety of...
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 6, 2020 | Arts, Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Events, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
This is the second piece in a series of Inletkeeper’s staff reflections from their experience at the Alaska’s first-ever Just Transition Summit Alaska’s Just Transition is about getting from where we’re at to where we want to be. We’re in a single revenue...
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.”...
