Along the pristine west side of lower Cook Inlet lies Tuxedni Bay, the only known winter feeding ground for the inlet’s critically endangered beluga whales. Cook Inlet belugas are irreplaceable, ...
Our parents raised us on the north end of Chisik Island in the mouth of Tuxedni Bay on the west side of Cook Inlet. Mom and Dad started setnetting there in 1970. We grew up in a subsistence lifestyle ...
The agency alleges an environmental study by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was conducted with a “serious” lack of ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— The Center for Biological Diversity and Cook Inletkeeper filed a petition with the National Marine Fisheries Service today to create a Cook Inlet beluga protection zone in the ...
Natural gas is essential to generating heat and electricity for many Alaskans. A looming shortfall from Cook Inlet, though, has utilities, lawmakers and residents concerned. BlueCrest Energy, an oil ...
A vessel approaches Hilcorp’s Tyonek offshore platform in Cook Inlet, where the company was using the Spartan 151 drilling rig last summer. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal) One way out of ...
The Trump administration on Friday affirmed a controversial federal Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale held at the end of 2022, asserting that impacts to endangered beluga whales and other resources ...
The U.S. government on Friday received just a single bid, from Hilcorp Alaska, for oil and gas drilling rights off the coast of Alaska the first federal auction in the region in more than five ...