...We're very happy, and we knew the (Surface Transportation Board) had acted accordingly and had followed NEPA."Bob Shavelson, with Cook Inletkeeper, said there are already three tidewater ports in Southcentral Alaska."It doesn't make...

...already have three tidewater ports in south-central Alaska and we don't need to waste public money on another," Bob Shavelson of Cook Inletkeeper said in the release.Sullivan said the port "will be South-central's future industrial center...

...Alaska," Colt said.Voters will have to decide whether the package of projects is a good investment, he said.Bob Shavelson, advocacy director for Cook Inletkeeper, a nonprofit group aimed at protecting the Cook Inlet watershed, said the...

...present with renewable sources. "Finding this now, it demonstrates the volatility around natural gas," he said. Bob Shavelson, executive director of the conservation organization Cook Inletkeeper, said it's no surprise the area is underexplored...

The demise of our Alaska Coastal Management Program should awaken every Alaskan. The federal Coastal Zone Management Act is the embodiment of the most balanced form of federalism - with federalism representing that ever-tense dynamic between federal and states' rights. The law requires no coastal state to participate. But if a state does, it gets two significant benefits: federal money to help manage its coastal zone, and - most importantly - the legal right to say if and how development in offshore waters should occur.

Longtime outspoken environmental activist Bob Shavelson has lost his seat on oil oversight group Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council this week for publicly criticizing the group's...

...came to Juneau with a 'sky-is-falling' appeal after losing its case before the state's highest court," said Bob Shavelson, executive director of Cook Inlet Keeper. In addition to undoing the court decision, the bill would undercut a lawsuit...

...you're fishing this summer, keep your ear tuned for another run at our fish-protection standards. Because Alaska's fisheries and the families they support are too important to waste on special interest favors. Bob Shavelson Homer

...of acres of beluga whale habitat and kept a close eye on the health of Cook Inlet salmon streams," said director Bob Shavelson. Now a second keeper program in Alaska is joining Cook Inlet Keeper. Late year, residents in Prince William Sound...

...all the agencies to fall into lockstep with the governor's position and they will not tolerate any dissent," said Bob Shavelson, executive director of Cook Inlet Keeper, a Homer-based pollution watchdog group. Gov. Frank Murkowski has made...