by Cook Inletkeeper | May 26, 2022 | Bears, Clean Water, Healthy Habitat, Pebble Mine, Salmon
On May 26, we started what we hope will be the LAST comment period advocating for strong protections under the Clean Water Act to defend Bristol Bay from destructive mining by a Canadian company. Many of you have been with us in this fight for years and years. Bristol...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 18, 2022 | Civics, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Events, Local Economies, Uncategorized
Working together, Alaskans are a powerful force for positive change in our communities. Let’s roll up our sleeves and put local solutions into action! We’ve all seen what happens when outsiders come in and do things without meaningful input from locals: We get...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 13, 2022 | Energy & Alaska, Lease Sale 258, Oil & Gas
Late on Wednesday, the Biden Administration quietly announced that the Department of the Interior would not be pursuing Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. First, we are thankful! Alaskans have been fighting the industrialization of Cook Inlet since the...
by Sue Mauger | May 11, 2022 | Climate Change, Healthy Habitat, Salmon, Uncategorized
The blue lines on topographic maps necessarily under-represent the complex movement of freshwater across floodplains, through wetlands and gravel bars. For a juvenile fish, the blue lines are experienced as a maze of currents, temperature, food and hiding places,...
by Ben Boettger | May 2, 2022 | Climate Change, Energy & Alaska, Homer Electric Association, Renewable Energy
An abbreviated version of this piece was initially published in our Spring 2022 newsletter. When America began to electrify, lights came on first in cities. It made commercial sense: the city’s affluent could easily foot the cost of power, and urban density...
