Oil & Gas

With new offshore oil and gas development, it’s only a question of when accidents and spills will occur. It doesn’t have to be on the scale of the Exxon Valdez disaster to be a catastrophe for Cook Inlet. A recent estimate from the offshore Lease Sale 258 estimated a 1 in 5 chance of at least one major oil spill. Salmon populations in these waters already face challenges from warming ocean and river temperatures; any oil and gas development in Lower Cook Inlet will open the door to unnecessary threat to our fisheries. Alaskans have worked to protect these coastal waters and fisheries from oil and gas for decades, and we need your help to oppose new leases now.

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