"Sponsors move to withdraw clean water initiative
CONFUSING: They'll support a similar, less controversial version.
By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
Published: May 18th, 2008 01:36 AM
Last Modified: May 18th, 2008 01:56 AM
The sponsors of a controversial ballot initiative to bar large metallic mines in Alaska from discharging certain pollutants into streams inhabited by salmon or used for drinking water asked the state to withdraw it Friday. The initiative was the first of two so-called "clean water" proposed laws that opponents of the Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska wanted to put before voters this year. The sponsors will shift their efforts to promoting the other initiative, said Jack Hobson, a sponsor who lives in Nondalton. That second initiative is somewhat less controversial and is scheduled to get a statewide vote in August."
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