Dicks of the Week - The Pebble Partnership
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 12:00AM 
The Partnership could win this award every day of week but today they deserve special mention.
From the Alaska Dispatch comes this gem.
The Pebble Limited Partnership has filed a motion in Alaska Superior Court in Anchorage asking the court to move for summary judgment to keep the proposed "Save Our Salmon" Initiative off of the borough's election ballot, alleging that the initiative is not certifiable under the Alaska Constitution and state statutes.
Borough manager Lamar Cotton said borough officials feel the initiative is valid and should go on the ballot.
"The borough does not take a position on the initiative itself," he said. "Our role as a local government is to assure that the election goes ahead."
Why is the Partnership filing the motion?
The initiative, if approved by borough residents, would amend the borough's development permitting code by adding a land-use permit requirement precluding permits for certain large-scale development projects, including mining, which will the initiative says will disturb the topsoil of more than 640 acres of land, causing "a significant adverse impact on existing anadromous waters."
Think they're a little nervous?
Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll once made a statement to the effect that Anglo American would not develop the mine if it was opposed by local communities. The only reason their puppet the Pabble Partneship is taking the ballot measure to court is they know they are going to lose if it gets on the ballot.
One of the world's largest mining conglomerates attempting to subvert a local ballot initiative, nice.
Reader Comments (1)
The Pebble Partnership will do anything they can to make the mine look good. "it will create thousands of jobs," which it will. Just not to the locals as it hints at. A few jobs will go to locals, the rest will go to outside non residents that have a mining background. What a crock of crap!