Alaska Superior Court Judge Restores Salmon Habitat Ballot Question That Could Prevent Pebble Mine
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Dispatch News] by Lisa Demer - October 10,2017
An Anchorage judge on Monday overruled Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott and says a ballot group that includes fishing, tribal and environmental interests can move ahead with an initiative intended to protect salmon.
The Stand for Salmon group, led by a trio that includes Mike Wood of the Susitna River Coalition, says it wants to accomplish a long-overdue rewrite of Alaska's fish habitat law through the ballot measure.
The matter ended up in court after Mallott rejected the proposed ballot initiative. The lieutenant governor, state lawyers and a pro-mining group said the measure would effectively appropriate a valuable public resource — water. The Alaska ...
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