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...
by Bridget Maryott | Jul 16, 2025 | Oil & Gas
When oil spills happen, the industry’s favorite response tool isn’t a mop or a containment boom — it’s a chemical cover-up. Oil dispersants like Corexit 9500A don’t actually clean up oil. They just break it into smaller particles, sinking it out of view. But out...
by Ben Boettger | Dec 18, 2024 | Oil & Gas, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Renewable Energy
Our Modern Lives Demand Energy – So We Must Demand Energy We Can Live With — Ben Boettger For about 60 years, natural gas extracted in and around Cook Inlet has provided most of our heat and nearly all our electricity. The gasoline in our cars and planes is produced...
