ADFG Ignored Facts & Law, Catered to Special Interest Groups, with New Jet Ski Rule HOMER, AK—Tuesday a coalition of Alaskan groups filed suit in state court challenging the Dunleavy Administration’s unlawful move to rollback safeguards in the Kachemak Bay & Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Areas to accommodate a small but influential special interest […]
HOMER, AK — As Alaska struggles with a historic fiscal crisis – and as the mining industry seeks to position itself as an economic engine for Alaska – a new report concludes that increased hard rock mining cannot fill the gap left by waning petroleum revenues. The report – entitled “The Role of Metal Mining […]
HOMER – Cook Inletkeeper Thursday applauded the decision by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to cancel public hearings around the proposed million-acre Oil & Gas Lease Sale 258 in Lower Cook Inlet. BOEM’s move comes in the wake of President Biden’s January 27 Executive Order placing a pause on all oil and […]
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 million since 2007 on high-priced lobbyists to buy their way to federal permits. And since […]
A significant ruling came down recently in a lawsuit regarding the use of oil spill chemical dispersants that has an Alaska connection. In addition to its relevance to the oil industry in Alaska, several plaintiffs in the case are based in Alaska: Alaska’s Cook Inletkeeper, which has spent the past 25 years holding the oil and […]
HOMER—Local businesses, voters and property owners Tuesday responded to the Dunleavy Administration’s abrupt decision last week to unravel safeguards to Kachemak Bay. On November 19, ADFG staff notified its planning team the “governor’s office decided to repeal the PWC [Personal Watercraft] prohibition” for the Kachemak Bay Critical Habitat Area. The notice named right-wing radio personality […]
Toxic Discharges from Oil & Gas Facilities Would Increase HOMER, AK—Cook Inletkeeper today called-out the Dunleavy Administration for weakening a key Clean Water Act permit that would allow the oil and gas industry to increase toxic dumping in prime salmon, halibut, and beluga whale habitat. The proposed permit covers oil and gas production wastes from […]
In a new report, Cook Inletkeeper details the increasing scale of lobby expenditures by the Pebble Partnership to influence the timeline and approval of their inadequate scoping and rushed permit applications. Just two days ago The Pebble Partnership hired the man Politico called the “most powerful lobbyist in Trump’s Washington”, fitting evidence in the unfolding story of Pebble’s […]