Inletkeeper Blog
Exxon Says “No” Salmon on Ballot Measure 1
ExxonMobil has donated a total of $1 Million to vote "No’ for salmon on Ballot Measure 1. In 2017, Exxon Mobil Corporation earned 2nd place on the Fortune 500 list, making it the largest privately-owned oil and energy company in the world. Exxon enjoyed profits over...
Former U.S. Commissioner to Anadromous Fish Commission Says “Vote YES on 1!”
I spent 38 yrs. managing fisheries from California to the Arctic, and I support Ballot Measure 1. My career included: Salmonid (salmon, steelhead, trout) management as a Pacific and North Pacific Fishery Management Council member; developing amendments to the Forest...
Why are Native Corporations misleading their shareholders?
For the past 23 years, Cook Inletkeeper has worked hard for clean water and healthy habitat in Cook Inlet and around Alaska. When we worked alongside residents in Tyonek and Beluga to prevent a coal company from Texas from mining through 14 miles of salmon streams on...
SALMON EXPERTS URGE ALASKANS TO SUPPORT BALLOT MEASURE 1
Today Cook Inletkeeper released a statement from 58 retired state and federal agency scientists and managers who strongly support the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1. Taken together, these experts have more than 1500 years’ experience managing and overseeing salmon...
SALMON EXPERTS URGE ALASKANS TO SUPPORT BALLOT MEASURE 1
Today Cook Inletkeeper released a statement from 58 retired state and federal agency scientists and managers who strongly support the Stand for Salmon Ballot Measure 1. Taken together, these experts have more than 1500 years’ experience managing and overseeing salmon...
Our Swimming Permanent Fund
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...
The Perfect Mouthpiece for the Corporate “NO” Salmon Campaign
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 row...
When is a Lie a Lie?: The Corporate Campaign Against Alaska 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...
The Shadowy Backdrop to the Corporate Campaign Against 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,...
Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice
We are at a tipping point. 2020 is a threshold for meeting global targets to tackle the climate crisis. We are fast running out of time to act and any meaningful action from the State of Alaska has been alarmingly slow at best. The Global Climate Action Summit, being...