by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 24, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
This Thursday is complex. Many of us grew up spending the day with friends and family celebrating Thanksgiving. But Thursday is also a National Day of Mourning where we must remember our nation’s tragic history with the indigenous peoples who have called North America...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 15, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Over the last fifty years, U.S. waters have been affected by almost 50 oil spills over 420,000 gallons. A few of the most famous are: Santa Barbara, California (1969): 3 million gallons spilled from an offshore platform blowout creating a 35 mile long oil slick. ...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 10, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Last week we asked you – our Inletkeepers – to stand up for Lower Cook Inlet and say “no” to the proposed oil and gas lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet. If you haven’t already signed the petition, please do so at inletkeeper.org/ls258 – and then share...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 2, 2021 | Oil & Gas, Lease Sale 258
Central to most Alaskan’s plates are salmon and other foods from the sea. It’s hard to visit Kachemak Bay without also enjoying fresh oysters or beer-battered fish. Halibut and salmon are common freezer staples all year long. It’s hard to imagine Alaska without this...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Nov 1, 2021 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
You are Inletkeeper – and NOW is a critical time to stand up for Cook Inlet. Last Friday, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) released the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed oil and gas lease sale in Lower Cook Inlet. We now have 45...
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...
