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.”...
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 | Dec 9, 2019 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat
What’s Happening: The Alaska Department of Fish & Game recently issued a public notice to repeal the current ban on jetskis and other personal watercraft in the Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area. The deadline for comments has been extended to no later than 5:00...
