How Do You Spell “Triggered”? I-N-L-E-T-K-E-E-P-E-R

October 10, 2019

Facebook is supposed to be a platform for exchanging ideas, family and friend information and everyday conversations.  As anyone using the platform knows, not all of your “friends” will agree with you, and the more extreme you are in your views, the better chance you have to be soundly “corrected” by one or more people. Cook Inletkeeper is a Homer, Alaska-based non-profit, whose anti-development, extreme environmentalist viewpoints have been on display for the world to see on Facebook since they started their page in April 2011.  Power The Future profiled their organization in March, and found that nine of their…

“Permanent Fund Day” Comes and Goes – Alaskans Rejoice

October 4, 2019

Alaskans celebrate some unique formal and informal days throughout the year. There’s Seward’s Day – the last Monday in March each year – celebrating the day then-Secretary of State William Seward penned an agreement with Russia in 1867 to transfer the Alaskan territory to the US for a paltry sum (even then!) of $.02 per acre. There’s Alaska Day – October 18th – celebrating the formal transfer from Russia to the United States later in 1867. There’s Elizabeth Peratrovich Day – February 16th – celebrating the Tlingit civil rights leader who helped pen the US’s first statewide anti-discrimination laws in…

Environmental Activists Attack Cruise Industry Despite “Little Hard Data”

September 30, 2019

Environmental activists in recent years have taken a new tack in their environmental extremism. One after another, the eco-left chooses another boogeyman from plastic straws to cows. The problem is, no sacrifice of Americans’ regular lives is good enough. The newest victim? Cruise ships. Bloomberg writes that the newest bad actor the eco-left should target is the cruise ship industry. The article credits the effectiveness of “Flight-shaming” people who increase their carbon footprint by using air travel, apparently ignoring the never-ending U.N. Climate summits where officials fly from all over the world to have yet another pointless meeting. Cruise ships…

The Impact of Eco-Extremists Is Being Felt in Alaska Cities

September 27, 2019

Alaska is a beautiful place.  Majestic mountains, meadows filled with a kaleidoscope of flora and fauna, lakes and rivers teeming with world-class fishing, fjords with abundant sea life and mammals, glaciers meandering to tidewater, and the Northern Lights showing off during the fall and winter months – Alaska shows its beauty off like nowhere else. Alaska is also one of the US’s greatest energy success stories.  From the gold found near Nome in pre-statehood days, to the massive amounts of timber in southcentral and southeast Alaska, to a 76-year coal mine with over 100 years of reserves that they know…

Climate Strikers in Anchorage Miss the Forest for the Trees

September 25, 2019

Last Friday was planned, scripted and advertised as a day for millions of people across the globe to gather in solidarity with one another, declaring the world’s future bleak, unless radical demands were met.  “Let’s strike!” they said, “and declare an end to fossil fuels, unless we want to live on an uninhabitable world in the future.” Even if the radical environmental and social agendas of the strikers were financially or technically feasible to implement in the timeframes called for, the results to world economic markets would be crippling.  Hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of current jobs…

Saudi Attacks Highlight Need for Alaska Oil & Gas Project Support

September 18, 2019

This weekend’s attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility – the nations’ largest – not only disrupts the world’s oil supplies, but highlights the need for continued investment and advancement of American oilfields. Here in Alaska, there are several new fields in the regulatory and/or development process. In Cook Inlet, several producers have projects in-production or in the prospect phase.  Many of these companies hold additional lease sites, and this could be a large job creation project. On the North Slope, Hilcorp’s Moose Pad started production this past April, while Glacier, Eni, Repsol, Oil Search, Chevron, Shell, ExxonMobil and…

Lefties Vote To Block Drilling In ANWR

September 13, 2019

By a 225-193 vote, the liberal-led House of Representatives voted to block drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge yesterday. A sponsor of the bill, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) said that “some places” are “so special, so wild, so spectacular, that they have to be off-limits to being spoiled by oil and gas development.” This is a tired argument that’s long been peddled by the eco-left – that resource development and the environment cannot coexist in Alaska, and that wildlife matter more than people. It’s no surprise that a House Member from California, who doesn’t live in Alaska, would vote…

Extremist Org Cook Inletkeeper Leads Efforts To Stymie Approved Seismic Testing In Cook Inlet

September 11, 2019

Last week, Homer, Alaska-based Cook Inletkeeper joined its national extremist cousin, the Center for Biological Diversity, in filing a lawsuit against the federal government, aiming to stop Hilcorp from moving ahead with seismic testing in its areas where it holds leases for possible future oil and gas extraction. As noted in our earlier post on the subject, Hilcorp’s ability to complete seismic testing will allow it to map potential fields.  Cook Inletkeeper – driven to appease its Lower-48-funded handlers’ wishes to lock up as much of Alaska from responsible resource development, even when the development would allow for “green energy”…