by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 3, 2020 | Bears, Belugas, blogs, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Johnson Tract Mine, Salmon
Another hardrock mine has reared its head in Cook Inlet, and it’s raising big questions from local property owners, fishermen and businesses. In late August 2020, Inletkeeper flew to the west side of Cook Inlet to meet with local residents and representatives of High...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 3, 2020 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Salmon, Uncategorized
Over the past five years, as we’ve developed our local foods programming, the value of building and supporting local food systems has become increasingly clear in our work to protect the Cook Inlet watershed.The United Nations refers to food, energy and water as the...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 28, 2020 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Talk is cheap, but numbers don’t lie. Northern Dynasty Minerals (NAK) – the junior Candian mining interest behind the proposed Pebble mine – did its damndest to hype its stock in the lead-up to the much-anticipated release of its Environmental Impact...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 22, 2020 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon, Uncategorized
Massive spending on lobbyists gives foreign mining interests unfair advantage over everyday Alaskans A new compilation by Cook Inletkeeper from U.S. Senate Lobbying Reports shows the Canadian mining interests behind the proposed Pebble mine have spent more than $15...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 16, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Mike Dunleavy recently flew all the way to the east coast to stand by Donald Trump as he gutted rules under the nation’s “environmental magna carta” – the National Environmental Policy Act. Of course Mike Dunleavy has contorted himself in any number of ways to coddle...
by Sue Mauger | Jul 13, 2020 | Climate Change, Government, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies, Press Releases, Salmon, Uncategorized
A new study – led by University of Alaska researchers and in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper – provides the first evidence that declines in many of Alaska’s Chinook salmon populations can be attributed in part to climate-driven changes in their...
