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 Cook Inletkeeper | Jul 9, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Local Economies
There is an enduring struggle in Cook Inlet to maintain a balance between developing oil and natural gas resources while also protecting the watershed’s rich biodiversity and thriving tourism and fishing industries. To date, the scale has tipped in favor of...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 3, 2020 | Civics, Clean Water, Climate Change, Energy & Alaska
On June 2, 2020, a federal court ruled the Trump EPA must revise rules governing the Clean Water Act’s National Contingency Plan – which covers oil spill prevention and response in Alaska and across the United States. Inletkeeper joined Alaska Natives and...
by Cook Inletkeeper | Jun 2, 2020 | Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Healthy Habitat, Salmon
TAKE ACTION NOW: https://staging.inletkeeper.org/hilcorpdumping/ CHECK OUT OUR SHORT VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT5Fqlfbubs In today’s increasingly greedy world, oil and gas companies will go to just about any length to make as much profit as possible. And...
by Cook Inletkeeper | May 20, 2020 | Bears, Clean Water, Energy & Alaska, Local Economies, Salmon
Government bureaucrats love to highlight Alaska’s work protecting our environment, because it helps sell the idea that Alaska’s “open for business.” The big mining, oil and gas corporations also like to tout Alaska’s green bona fides, because it helps insulate them...
