City leaders want for more marine research, less federal controlSterner measures to protect Cook Inlet beluga whales could thwart efforts to build a natural gas pipeline to the Kenai Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from the December issue of Business • News Alaska. Dawnell Smith PNA Contributing Writer
Alaska communities face multi-million dollar costs if the National Marine Fisheries Service adopts sterner measures to protect Cook Inlet beluga whales and the western population of stellar sea lions, say city, borough and Native leaders.
“Whatever we do, let’s let science drive this bus,” Kodiak I....
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