by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 31, 2022 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
Since our last update, the Inflation Reduction Act passed, bringing with it a mandate to hold Lease Sale 258 in the federal waters of Lower Cook Inlet before the end of 2022. Although we can’t stop this unpopular sale from moving forward, Inletkeeper and partners will...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 3, 2022 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
Cook Inletkeeper has been fighting alongside our supporters for our collective vision of Cook Inlet for the last 27 years. This vision has focused on clean water, healthy salmon, and strong communities. One central theme of this fight has been limiting oil and gas...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 28, 2022 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 28, 2022 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Liz Mering, Inletkeeper (907.235.3459) Marissa Wilson, Executive Director AMCC (907.299.6566) PROPOSED BILL IN CONGRESS IGNORES ALASKANS, WOULD SACRIFICE COOK INLET 40 years of oil and gas...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 9, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon
If you are like me, you feel like we just celebrated Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet being taken off the table. Unfortunately, as many of you are only too familiar with, we are again facing a proposed lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet.  President Biden and the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 23, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
How many times do we have to say NO to a bad project that would harm Alaskans? Most Alaskans know the main storyline of the decades-long Pebble Mine saga: Geologists discover the pebble deposit in 1987; A series of foreign companies thought it would be easy to dig a...
by Sue Mauger | Jun 16, 2022 | Arts, Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
On Monday, I saw a helicopter pilot I hadn’t seen in 14 years. Stan piloted my first trip in Bristol Bay to sample small headwater streams near the Pebble deposit. Seeing Stan brought up a flood of memories and names of people who have contributed to the decades of...
