Draft Cook Inlet LNG Pipeline Document Reveals Devastating Impact on Endangered Belugas A draft version of an application submitted by Alaska Gas Development Corporation (AGDC) to “take” marine mammals during the construction of a liquefied natural gas pipeline and terminal in Cook Inlet, Alaska suggests that the project could expose nearly half of the population of […]
On May 11th, 2018, The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) wrote a letter in response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries’ request for comments on a petition for regulations governing the taking of marine mammals (ITR) by the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) in Cook Inlet, Alaska. In this letter, EIA voiced its […]
IMO Takes Major Step Towards Ending Dirty Fuel Use in the Arctic Washington, D.C – Today the International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed to develop a ban, on an appropriate timescale, on the use and carriage for use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in the Arctic. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) hails this critical step towards […]
IMO Member States Must Back Ban on Heavy Fuel Oil from Arctic Shipping London, 9th April 2018 – As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee opens today in London (MEPC72), the Clean Arctic Alliance called on IMO member states to support a proposal to ban heavy fuel oil (HFO) from […]
Today EIA filed a comment in opposition to the unprecedented plan by the administration to open 98 percent of the American outer continental shelf to oil and natural gas activity. Four of the five populations of beluga whales in the United States will be threatened by this damaging program.
By Dan Hubbell, EIA Policy Analyst Canada has one of the longest coastlines in the world, touching the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic Oceans. Yet in spite of the vast breadth of its waters and the remarkable biodiversity within them, Canada has protected just one percent of its waters with marine protected areas (MPAs). Moreover, industrial […]