Keeping Alaska's Waters Clean and Productive
for Generations to Come
ACWA, a project of the Earth Island Institute, works to prevent the degradation of public waters through advocacy, education, litigation, legislation and market campaigns in support of the fundamental goals of the federal Clean Water Act:
- All Alaska waters should protect aquatic life and be safe for recreation.
- The discharge of all pollutants into public waters should be eliminated.
Climate change is impacting the far north more dramatically than anywhere else on the planet. Our waters, and the people and wildlife that depend upon them every day, have never needed more support.
Recent News:
The Guardian Article on the Palmer Project
For 2,000 years, Jones Hotch’s ancestors have fished Alaska’s Chilkat River for the five species of salmon that spawn in its cold, clean waters… Now Hotch fears a proposed mining project could end that way of life.
Curtain Opens on DOWA and the Palmer Project
For more than a decade, Constantine Metals Resources (CMR) has played a public relations game with the communities of Haines and Klukwan, posing as a caring, controlling interest in the proposed copper-zinc mine known as the Palmer Project. The goal was to convince us that the company’s concern for the Chilkat River Watershed and our rivers, fish, eagles, and our way of life would guide the development of the mine and protect everyone’s interests into the distant future.
Kuiper Report on the Palmer Project Preliminary Economic Analysis
Kuiper Report on Palmer Project Economic Analysis
Current Projects
CHILKAT CHALLENGE TRIATHLON
The 4th Annual Chilkat Challenge Triathlon will be held on July 11th, 2020. For more information and to register, go to http://www.chilkatchallengetriathlon.com/
ACWA hosted the 3rd Annual Chilkat Challenge Triathlon in Haines, Alaska on July 6th, 2019! The CCT is an 9 mile paddle, 22 mile bike ride, 6 mile run along the Chilkat River, through the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Racers competed solo, two, or three-person teams. Winners received great prizes from our sponsors and had a great time throughout the event!
Save the Chilkat!
Click this link to read about our efforts to protect the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve from a large scale copper/zinc mine that threatens to eliminate five major salmon runs, the eagles and bears that need those fish to survive, and the sustainable fishing and tourism industries that have thrived in the Chilkat Valley for decades…
Find out more here: SAVE THE CHILKAT!