by Sue Mauger | Jul 13, 2020 | Climate Change, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Press Releases, Salmon, Uncategorized
A new study – led by University of Alaska researchers and in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper – provides the first evidence that declines in many of Alaska’s Chinook salmon populations can be attributed in part to climate-driven changes in their...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 9, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
There is an enduring struggle in Cook Inlet to maintain a balance between developing oil and natural gas resources while also protecting the watershed’s rich biodiversity and thriving tourism and fishing industries. To date, the scale has tipped in favor of...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
Government bureaucrats love to highlight Alaska’s work protecting our environment, because it helps sell the idea that Alaska’s “open for business.” The big mining, oil and gas corporations also like to tout Alaska’s green bona fides, because it helps insulate them...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 19, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It puts the aspirations and needs of those who produce,...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 19, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Government, Local Economies, Salmon
Today, Cook Inletkeeper joined four Native Tribes in a legal challenge to the Dunleavy Administration’s decision to let Donlin Gold build a 315 mile-long gas pipeline across hundreds of fish streams from Cook Inlet to Donlin’s mine site next to the Kuskokwim River. ...
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...
