by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 3, 2023 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
The EPA’s decision this week to veto the Pebble Mine and issue Clean Water Act protections for Bristol Bay is a victory for Alaskans and the Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet ecosystems! In all the ways you showed up: at rallies, signing petitions and postcards, with dollars...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 29, 2022 | Belugas, Lease Sale 258, Pebble Mine
This has been a frustrating year! Yet another Pebble mine comment period. Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet is happening tomorrow despite being canceled in May. The Cook Inlet beluga whale population is not improving. Our carbon emissions continue to go...
by Sue Mauger | Dec 1, 2022 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
As Alaskans pay over $4/gallon at the pump, Exxon Mobil Corp. made record-breaking 3rdquarter profits. With rising demand and an undersupplied energy market amplified byWestern sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, the planet-warming dirty money...
by Satchel Pondolfino | Jul 13, 2022 | Arts, Events, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
It’s salmon season in Alaska and that means people all over the State are putting on their waders or grundens, pulling out their nets and poles, and heading out to our salmon waters at all hours of the day and night. In our watershed, Dena’ina, Alutiiq and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 23, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
How many times do we have to say NO to a bad project that would harm Alaskans? Most Alaskans know the main storyline of the decades-long Pebble Mine saga: Geologists discover the pebble deposit in 1987; A series of foreign companies thought it would be easy to dig a...
by Sue Mauger | Jun 16, 2022 | Arts, Bears, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Pebble Mine, Salmon
On Monday, I saw a helicopter pilot I hadn’t seen in 14 years. Stan piloted my first trip in Bristol Bay to sample small headwater streams near the Pebble deposit. Seeing Stan brought up a flood of memories and names of people who have contributed to the decades of...
