by Loren Barrett | Dec 4, 2025 | Lease Sale 258, Lease Sales, Oil & Gas
The waters, wildlife, and communities of Cook Inlet | Tikahtnu stand at a crossroads. Over the next seven years, Lower Cook Inlet faces twelve separate offshore oil and gas lease sales—a relentless series of industrial expansions that could permanently transform one...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 26, 2025 | Press Releases, Lease Sale 258, Lease Sales, Oil & Gas
11th Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 5-year plan **PRESS RELEASE** HOMER, AK — Cook Inletkeeper condemns the federal government’s draft 11th Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 5-year plan, which proposes five new oil and gas lease sales in Lower Cook Inlet between 2027 and...
by Bridget Maryott | Nov 5, 2025 | AK LNG, Belugas, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
When the environment’s protectors ally themselves with its looters, it falls to local people and local institutions to defend the waters and ecosystems on which we depend. With the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency bowing to fossil fuel interests,...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Oct 22, 2025 | Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Sign the Petition to Demand a Hearing Federal regulators at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) are moving to finalize Cook Inlet oil and gas Lease Sale 258 without public hearings or opportunities for comment on a more thorough environmental review ordered...
by Ben Boettger | Oct 22, 2025 | AK LNG, Oil & Gas
For over a decade, the central peninsula has grown accustomed to the ritual of Alaska Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) presentations at the Nikiski Community Rec Center. The Alaska LNG (AK LNG) project would build an 800-mile pipeline from North Slope natural gas fields to...
by Loren Barrett | Sep 18, 2025 | Oil & Gas, Lease Sale 258
In 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved Lease Sale 258 without fully considering cumulative impacts to Cook Inlet Belugas, the impact of vessel noise, and alternatives for a reduced sale and meaningful reduction of overall impacts to Cook...
