by Loren Barrett | Feb 18, 2026 | Lease Sales, Clean Water, Cook Inlet, Oil & Gas
In July of 2025, Congress passed the Big Beautiful Bill Act, a section of which requires BOEM to hold at least six offshore oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, one each year from 2026 to 2028, and again from 2030 to 2032. The first of these six mandated lease sales is...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 5, 2026 | Lease Sales, Energy & Alaska, Oil & Gas
After U.S. forces captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump bluntly told reporters he wanted U.S. oil companies to make heavy investments there, saying “We’re going to be taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground.” Something that’s...
by Inletkeeper | Feb 5, 2026 | Lease Sales, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Oil & Gas
Last year, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) prematurely scrapped an offshore management plan that protected Alaskan coastal waters from oil and gas leasing. Now, the agency is planning multiple leases for Lower Cook Inlet in their new 5-year plan. It’s...
by Inletkeeper | Jan 22, 2026 | Lease Sales, Energy & Alaska, Oil & Gas
As the Cook Inlet gas we’ve historically relied on for heat and electricity becomes more expensive and precarious, the Trump administration is offering a golden chance to prolong our dependence, spend more on energy, and create a long-term drag on our economy by...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 19, 2026 | Lease Sales, Oil & Gas
In November 2025, the federal government released its draft 11th OCS Five-Year Plan, proposing five new oil and gas lease sales in Lower Cook Inlet between 2027 and 2031. Nationwide, the plan would open approximately 1.27 billion acres of public waters to oil and gas...
by Inletkeeper | Jan 13, 2026 | Lease Sales, Oil & Gas
Front and center talking points: With new offshore oil and gas development, it’s only a question of when accidents and spills will occur. It doesn’t have to be on the scale of the Exxon Valdez disaster to be a catastrophe for Cook Inlet. A recent estimate from Lease...
