by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 9, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
If you are like me, you feel like we just celebrated Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet being taken off the table. Unfortunately, as many of you are only too familiar with, we are again facing a proposed lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet. President Biden and the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 13, 2022 | Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Late on Wednesday, the Biden Administration quietly announced that the Department of the Interior would not be pursuing Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. First, we are thankful! Alaskans have been fighting the industrialization of Cook Inlet since the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 24, 2022 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
On this date 33 years ago, Alaskans experienced the oiling of Prince William Sound and beyond. You know the story – Bligh Reef, drunk captain, North Slope crude oil. A disastrous trifecta that fouled our waters and shoreline resulting in the most significant...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 16, 2021 | Climate Change, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
I’ve never been a fan of scary movies. All the anticipation and fear of knowing that bad things are around the corner – and there’s nothing to do about it – is not my idea of fun. I think that’s why I’ve been committed to monitoring salmon stream health...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 15, 2021 | Belugas, Climate Change, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas, Press Releases
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 14, 2021 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Liz Mering, Inletkeeper (907.235.3459) FEDS IGNORE SERIOUS IMPACTS TO TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, FISHERIES, WILDLIFE & BUSINESSES IN COOK INLET President Biden promised no more...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Dec 14, 2021 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
I remember ice floes in fast-moving water and hoarfrost on cars. I remember a steaming volcano in the distance. I remember 100 bald eagles in the trees. In late 1995, I drove down the Kenai Peninsula to accept the job running Cook Inletkeeper. It felt like another...
