by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 28, 2019 | Clean Water, Government, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
If you’re a semi-conscious Alaskan, you probably know by now the billionaire Koch brothers have their hands around the throat of democracy in the Last Frontier. You may recall how the Koch Brother’s front groups – the Alaska Policy Forum, Power the Future, and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 27, 2019 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
Featured photo: Michael Melford The Army Corps of Engineers began their public hearings in Naknek, AK on Monday for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement regarding the proposed Pebble Mine Plan. At the same time that residents from rural Alaska make arrangements to...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 20, 2019 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
< Submit your Public Comment online here > When I interviewed for my job with Cook Inletkeeper in 1995, the hiring committee handed me a draft Clean Water Act permit for oil and gas discharges in Cook Inlet, and asked me how I would change it to reduce pollution....
by Cook Inletkeeper | Mar 5, 2019 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
The Pebble people are pulling out all the stops. With the Trump and Dunleavy Administrations in power, Pebble knows now is the time to ram through a giant open-pit mine in the headwaters of the richest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. But Pebble knows a strong...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Feb 28, 2019 | Clean Water, Pebble Mine, Salmon
We’ve reviewed dozens of Environmental Impact Statements over the years. And while they’re not our preferred bedtime reading, we were looking forward to seeing what the federal Army Corps had to say in the recently released Draft EIS (DEIS) for the proposed Pebble...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jan 11, 2019 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
I attended a presentation this week in Homer by Mark Hamilton, Vice President of External Affairs and mouthpiece for the Pebble mine, and it was remarkable on a couple fronts. First, the tone. Hamilton spoke down to the crowd like a seasoned used car salesman,...
