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Cook Inletkeeper
News & Events
Press Releases
Mar 13 -
Coal Costs Stop
Agrium from Gasification Option
Oct 15 -
Alaska Pushes Coal Projects Despite New Fish Consumption
Guidelines for Mercury
Oct 10 -
Inletkeeper Applauds Kachemak Bay
Enforcement Effort
Jun 18 -
Inletkeeper Joins Tribes,
Fishermen in Oil & Gas Dumping Challenge
Apr 17, 2007 - Massive Coal Mine Lands Chuitna
River on “Most Endangered” List
Apr 2, 2007 -
“Citzen
Scientists” Track Water Quality in Local Waterways
Feb 15, 2007 -
“Citzen
Scientists” Track Water Quality in Local Waterways
Jan 11, 2007 - Repeat
Tanker Incident Prompts Call for Congressional Oversight
Dec 7, 2006 -
Cook Inletkeeper Instrumental
in Passage of Federal Pipeline Safety Bill!
June 26,
2006 -
New Report Highlights Water Quality Conditions Around East
End Road Construction Project
June
12,
2006 Citizens' Monitoring Report
May 30, 2006 -
New Report Supports Zero Discharge-No Need for Oil/Gas Industry
Toxic Dumping
April 6,
2006 -
Inletkeeper Denounces EPA Draft Discharge Permit at Anchorage
Public Hearing
February
14, 2006 - Feds Cancel Lower Cook Inlet Oil & Gas Sale
February 3, 2006 - Inletkeeper Inspects Grounded Tanker - Calls
(Again!) for Tug Assists!
January 26,
2006 -
Salmon
Stream Temperatures Found Higher, Earlier, More Often
January 20, 2006 -
Cook
Inlet Beluga Whale Needs Habitat Protection
In the News
Oct 16 - Loss of cetaceans a mystery
- Cook Inlet's white whales still declining; U.S. again
considers endangered status
By
Don Hunter, Anchorage Daily News
Seven years after a virtual halt to Native subsistence hunts was
thought to have put a depleted stock of Cook Inlet beluga whales
on a path to recovery, marine mammal scientists counting the
bright white whales from the air last summer spotted fewer than
ever. (full story)
Oct 15 -
Delegation holds BP operations hearing
By Rachel D'Oro, Associated Press/Juneau
Empire
ANCHORAGE-About 200 barrels of sediment were scraped from a
five-mile stretch of oil transmission pipe that was shut down at
Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field after leaks and corrosion were
found in August, federal officials said Friday.
(full
story)
Fall 2006 - General BP Pipeline
Media
Sept 12 - Listen to Lois Epstein on Al Franken Part 1
Sept 12 -
Listen to Lois Epstein on Al Franken Part 2
Aug 22 - Listen to Cook Inletkeeper’s Lois Epstein on Talk of Alaska
Aug 8 - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Alaskan Oil Pipeline Leak Raises
Environmental Concerns (transcript of interview with Lois
Epstein of Cook Inletkeeper and Steve Marshall of BP)
Sept 28 -
House OKs pipeline regulations
By
Sam Bishop, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
WASHINGTON–A
U.S. House committee approved tougher inspection rules
Wednesday for oil pipelines like those that leaked at
Prudhoe Bay this year, but Alaska Rep. Don Young, chairman
of a second committee with jurisdiction, said he’ll take his
time reviewing the proposal.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted Wednesday
morning in favor of a bill that would require the U.S.
Department of Transportation to regulate low-stress
pipelines in the same manner as high-stress lines.
Low-stress lines are those with internal pressures below 20
percent of their designed strength.
Only certain low-stress
lines fall under DOT regulation at present. The leaking
transit lines that serve the western and eastern operating
areas of Prudhoe Bay are not federally regulated, although a
rule proposed by DOT late last month would change that.
Young, chairman of the
House Transportation Committee, said Wednesday afternoon
that he wants to review the DOT’s new regulations before he
agrees to the kind of broad changes in law that the Energy
and Commerce Committee approved earlier in the day.
(full story)
Sept
1- Federal regulators propose rules for transit pipelines
The plan would increase oversight, but Cook Inletkeeper says it
doesn't go far enough
By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News
Federal pipeline regulators on
Thursday proposed new rules to toughen oversight of low-pressure pipelines
such as those that sprang leaks this year at Prudhoe Bay, hobbling the
nation's largest oil field.
(full story)
Sept 1-
Proposal would put ‘low-stress’ pipelines under federal rules
By Sam Bishop, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Anchorage, Alaska - Some oil field pipelines that operate at
lower pressures, such as two recent leakers in the Prudhoe Bay field, would
come under federal regulation for the first time under an agency proposal
released late Thursday. (full story)
April 21- Channel 2 (Anchorage) story on the 3/2 North
Slope leak
By Sean Doogan, KTUU
Anchorage, Alaska - A report issued by BP Exploration (Alaska)
Inc. and the State of Alaska
says Prudhoe Bay
pipeline leak detection systems are working. But a 200,000-gallon leak from
a transit pipe has showcased a growing problem on the North Slope
-- as older pipes corrode away, hard-to-detect leaks might not raise alarms
until it's too late.
(full story)
March 24 -
Permit for oil and gas discharges in Cook Inlet up for review
By Mike Mason, KBBI APRN
The permit that allows discharges from oil and gas platforms in Cook
Inlet is up for review.
(full story)
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