Rick Steiner

The state’s fear of critical scientific review betrays its lack of confidence in the veracity of its predator control program.

It is imperative that the state of Alaska now commission a scientific review of Alaska’s controversial predator control program.

It is time for the TAPS tanker owners to do the right thing and adopt the proposed speed reduction to a maximum of 10 knots.

Pretense aside, this is the factual record of the Council’s May 3 meeting.

The Citizens’ Advisory Council is a critical component of the environmental safety net for oil shipment through Prince William Sound, but it has veered astray and needs a course correction.

Society has a historic choice to make with the imperiled Arctic Ocean.

Obviously, the last thing the state of Alaska wants is for we-the-people to see actual photos of the atrocity committed by “our” state government, ostensibly on our behalf.

The state must conduct better science on Alaska’s wildlife and end all lethal predator control efforts once and for all.

If tanker owners and other shippers will not adopt reasonable whale safety measures voluntarily, it is up to the federal government to require them to do so.

It is time for the Legislature to enact the Alaska Climate Change Response Fund act as proposed, so we can help communities better prepare for the next climate disaster.

It is time for the federal trustees to play hardball and assert the overwhelming national interest on this important issue.

It is clear that the Kremlin will continue to exploit America’s current political chaos - that it helped foment - any way it can.

For too long, the world community has turned a blind eye toward the sacrosanct role of the U.N. in ensuring world peace.

Either we fully fund the low-carbon energy transition now, or we will lose any chance for a habitable world.

It is clearly in the national, state and local interest that this threat be permanently eliminated.