by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 9, 2018 | Civics, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
On the same day PFD dividends hit bank accounts this year, I thawed a filet of silver salmon from the Kenai River. I remember feeling so grateful with that particular fresh, beautiful fish in my hands this August. With the sockeye fishery closed just weeks before, I...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Oct 2, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Desperate times call for desperate measures. What else could explain the choice of Randy Bates – former ADFG Habitat Division Director – as a prominent spokesman in folksy TV and video ads for the corporate campaign against Alaska salmon? Inletkeeper had a front...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 20, 2018 | Healthy Habitat, Salmon
Calling a person or a group a liar is somewhat taboo, even in our evolving post-fact world, because the accusation is fairly serious. And of course the main difference between a flat out lie and garden variety misinformation comes down to intent: did the speaker know...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 11, 2018 | Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Salmon
It’s no secret the corporate campaign against the Stand for Salmon ballot initiative has amassed more than $10 million to try to stop Alaskans from updating our 60-year-old, one-sentence-long salmon habitat law. But there’s a darker effort unfolding behind the scenes,...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Sep 4, 2018 | Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
In the lead-up to the long holiday weekend, when Alaskans were distracted with camping and hunting and fishing plans, the Walker Administration quietly issued two decisions which show exactly why we need to pass the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1 to take politics...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Aug 14, 2018 | Clean Water, Salmon
Every once in a while the truth slips out. Yesterday Kurt Parkan, a mouthpiece for the giant Donlin Gold Mine, laid bare the myth of rigorous permitting in Alaska. “Projects go into the process of getting a permit with the expectation of getting a permit,” Parkan...
