by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 9, 2018 | Civics, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
On the same day PFD dividends hit bank accounts this year, I thawed a filet of silver salmon from the Kenai River. I remember feeling so grateful with that particular fresh, beautiful fish in my hands this August. With the sockeye fishery closed just weeks before, I...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 2, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Desperate times call for desperate measures. What else could explain the choice of Randy Bates – former ADFG Habitat Division Director – as a prominent spokesman in folksy TV and video ads for the corporate campaign against Alaska salmon? Inletkeeper had a front...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 20, 2018 | Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Calling a person or a group a liar is somewhat taboo, even in our evolving post-fact world, because the accusation is fairly serious. And of course the main difference between a flat out lie and garden variety misinformation comes down to intent: did the speaker know...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 4, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In the lead-up to the long holiday weekend, when Alaskans were distracted with camping and hunting and fishing plans, the Walker Administration quietly issued two decisions which show exactly why we need to pass the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1 to take politics...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 29, 2018 | Healthy Habitat, Press Releases
ANCHORAGE— The Alaska Department of Natural Resources bowed to corporate pressure late yesterday evening, after the court ordered deadline, and rejected efforts by Alaskan citizens to protect wild salmon in the Chuitna River watershed on the west side of Cook Inlet....
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 13, 2018 | Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Did you know that in the Cook Inlet, oil & gas operators can legally dump toxic waste into coastal fisheries? That’s right – Oil & gas corporations are allowed to dump over 100,000 gallons of oil and grease and over 835,000 pounds of metals such as mercury,...
