How much risk are we willing to accept?

by Sue Mauger | May 22, 2023 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas

It took less than 13 years for oil from Prudhoe Bay, traveling down the new Trans-Alaska Pipeline, to smother the coast and the life it sustained in Prince William Sound and beyond. From 1977 to 1989, the corporate and political promises seemed to be paying off for...

Climate Action for Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu

by Sue Mauger | Jan 19, 2023 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258

Nowhere is the disconnect between energy policy and climate impacts more evident than in Cook Inlet. In the same waters covered in last month’s federal Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258, federal fisheries managers closed the highly-lucrative Pacific cod fishery in...

Alaska Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258 Confirms Lack of Industry Interest; Alaskans Call for the Administration to Remove Cook Inlet From Future Sales

by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 30, 2022 | Press Releases, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas

After canceling the sale in May of 2022, the Biden Administration moved forward with leasing Alaska’s Lower Cook Inlet—resulting in only 1 bid on 1 block out of 193. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 30, 2022 Press Contact: Grace Nolan, grace@team-arc.com; Sue Mauger,...

Cook Inlet is Worth It!

by Sue Mauger | Dec 29, 2022 | Belugas, Lease Sale 258, Pebble Mine

This has been a frustrating year! Yet another Pebble mine comment period. Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet is happening tomorrow despite being canceled in May. The Cook Inlet beluga whale population is not improving. Our carbon emissions continue to go...

The Lessons of Oil & Gas Leasing in 2022

by Sue Mauger | Dec 1, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258

It’s easy to feel alone in the conviction that now is the time to stop developingnew oil & gas leases in Alaska. In 2022, we’ve seen Congress mandate that Lease Sale 258 in the federal watersof Lower Cook Inlet move forward before the end of the year; and the...

Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 is a False Solution to High Gas Prices and Sacrifices Cook Inlet Communities

by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 22, 2022 | Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas, Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 22, 2022 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Sue Mauger, 907.399.2070, sue@inletkeeper.org Taylor Kendal Smith, 907.802.0534, taylor@inletkeeper.org Ben Boettger, 603.306.1352, ben@inletkeeper.org HOMER, Alaska — Today, the Department of the...