[4] A current listing of Cook Inlet Region, Inc.'s officers and directors, as well as documents filed with the State of Alaska since CIRI's incorporation, are available online through the Corporations Database of the Division of Corporations, Business & Professional Licensing, Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development.
[1] At incorporation, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. enrolled about 7,000 Alaska Native shareholders, each of whom received 100 shares of CIRI stock.
[2] As an ANCSA corporation, CIRI has no publicly traded stock and its shares cannot be sold; they can be transferred by gift or inheritance, almost always to descendants or relatives.
Under federal law, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. and its majority-owned subsidiaries, joint ventures and partnerships are deemed to be "minority and economically disadvantaged business enterprise[s]" (43 USC 1626(e)).
[5] In October 2009, Cook Inlet Region, Inc. announced plans to pursue the first underground coal gasification project in the country...[6][7] This project has been touted as being environmentally friendlier than traditional coal combustion, but concerns still remain about groundwater contamination and possibilities for carbon dioxide remittance.