by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 6, 2021 | Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
This past weekend there was quite the stir in Homer as a jack-up rig came down Cook Inlet, into Kachemak Bay, and around the spit. Meanwhile, California communities were hit with the news of a massive oil spill from a pipeline leak off the southern coast. These events...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Apr 27, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
When President Biden took office, he promptly delivered on his campaign promise to address climate change by pausing new oil and gas leasing in federal waters until his Administration could review the leasing program. The pause put the brakes on proposed federal Lease...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 4, 2021 | Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Cook Inletkeeper today applauded the decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to cancel public hearings around the proposed million-acre Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. BOEM’s move comes in the wake of President Biden’s...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 27, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
In early January, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) spit out an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 1 million acre + Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258. BOEM spent a mere 3 months on the EIS; never before had the federal government rushed through...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 13, 2021 | Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
In the last brutal days of the Trump Administration, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) threw a desperate lifeline to the oil and gas industry. On January 13, BOEM released a rushed and haphazard draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to pave the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 10, 2020 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas, Salmon
This past week, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council sent shockwaves across Alaska when it abruptly closed commercial salmon fishing in the federal waters of Lower Cook Inlet. The closure resulted from the State of Alaska’s blanket refusal to work with the...
